– Radical Candor: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean

Interesting read. Some thought provoking points through out.

Really engaging, challenging conversations never easy but she gives you so many practical tips that support the care personally challenge directly.

Business books are usually frowned on with their clichés. This does have some sage advice. Read a chapter a day. Make notes, Re-read. Can be applied if you manage staff, improve your work and how you deal and interact with different people, not just work. Useful as a philosophy for a workplace IF it comes from the top. Hard to apply if you don't have everyone onboard.

Great book. If you are in a leadership position and want to drive positive culture, read this book!

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Usual management stuff.. nothing new

Let me start by saying that if you work for a company the contents of this book are invaluable. But it's also highly useful for everyone to use in any aspect of life. It gives a useful and easy to apply quadrant framework on how to approach communication of feedback. This quadrant diagram alone is earth shatteringly useful, particularly if you work in an organisation which has developed a blame culture. The edition I read also has bonus chapters with additional information on performance management Vs developmental chats which again was incredibly useful. However, in the spirit of caring personally and challenging directly, it loses a star because I felt that the contents of the book could have been better organised to allow busy managers to refer back to it more easily. It felt like I was listening to myself speaking about how to improve things where I work, and one of the things I'm working on is trying to be more concise and focussed with my guidance and make the resources I share able to be more easily used for reference. I genuinely believe that Radical Candor is the solution to so many problems where I work, and my passion for what I can clearly see leads me off on tangents when I talk about it in ways which, although highly relevant to me sometimes leave others a bit lost and confused. The challenge will be getting those in power in my company to see the benefits of Radical Candor instead of being ruinously empathetic or worse, manipulatively insincere. The reason I love reading self development books is I find they live on longer after the back cover has been closed through the application of the ideas they contain, but sometimes that can be difficult. A more logical structure would make sure this book will be used as a living success manual and won't be consigned to the shelves to gather dust. I've highlighted the hell out of my copy to make sure I can keep it alive. Life changing stuff.

Brilliant book which all line managers and HR professionals should read

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I first heard about "Radical Candor" during my government agency's annual training conference, a conference that included a workshop based upon "Radical Candor" led by our HR director. While I hadn't heard of the book, I fell in love with the ideas behind it and upon my return home set out to pick up the book for myself. "Radical Candor" has easily become one of my favorite books of the past year, a terrific option for those who are challenged by difficult conversations and who want to grow in leadership. While "Radical Candor" is likely most applicable to those in management or leadership positions, I've found the book really has been of tremendous benefit in my personal life. Within weeks of reading the book, I found myself in a challenging situation dealing with a healthcare provider and took much of what I learned from the book to resolve the situation positively and to work through a potentially negative situation. I displayed a side of myself I didn't really know and was rather awestruck by the positive results. Since reading the book, I've actually been promoted into a supervisory position and am now seeing the ways in which the book complements my existing leadership skills and management style. Truly, "Radical Candor" remains one of my favorite books from the past year and I've seen positive growth both personally and professionally resulting from author Kim Scott's intelligent, informed and sensitively written guidance.

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Really interesting insights into managing teams. Some of the examples are a little specific to be scalable to all situations, but very helpful all the same. First time in a while I've highlighted sections in a book to revisit!

On this book Kim Scott was able to piece together everything she has learned about business into a complete and cohesive model on how to manage based on three pillars: to care personally; to confront directly; to practice all sorts of 1:1s. I intensively study management practices, but it wasn't until last year that I had management experience with more than five direct reports. In 2016 I started a company in which I had 20 direct reports. I tried what I now know is called a "Ruinous Empathy" approach. I thought that just caring and showing that to employees would bring open conversations to the table. Interesting thing is that people loved me, but soon things started getting out of control. That's when I started an "Obnoxious Agression" approach, fired some of them and stopped caring so much ( now I know I share great part of responsibility for what happened there). As you may have noticed both approaches lack a delicate kind of balance. That is the balance Kim Scott tries so hard to achieve with her method and I can understand perfectly why. Here you'll find insightful quotations from world's leaders sharing their beliefs. Moreover, you'll often find phrases on the following format: "you might think you don't have the time to___, but ___" . That means the model here presented requires an intensive focus on people. You'll need skills, time and dedication for it to work out. I can not state if it works, but it is definitely a north to follow and seems to be doing really good to me. It reminded me of the transformative experience it was reading Carol Dweck's Mindset. Let me help you grasp what this book is really about with more concrete terms. Here, you will read about: Hiring: getting to know the candidate behind the mask as much as possible in a short period of time. Firing: doing what is best for the employee, not the company. Giving/Receiving Feedbacks How to deal with biases, corporate structure, trust, openness, humility. Putting people on the right jobs: Are the hungry for growth or for improving on what they do now? Meetings: Establishing structured meetings with clear purposes, facilitating meetings, setting it out on a corporate agenda. . Dig further (Some of the books that Radical Candor reminded me):: On conversation: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High- Kerry Patterson On meetings: Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change- Chris Ertel ; Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable about Solving the Most Painful; Problem in Business- Patrick Lencioni ; Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days - Jake Knapp On Productivity: Scrum - Jeff Sutherland Getting Buy in: Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down On Change Management: Leading Change -John .P Kotter. Humble Conversations Creativity - Ed Catmull