• The Art of Radical Candor with Kim Scott

  • Nov 1 2022
  • Length: 45 mins
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The Art of Radical Candor with Kim Scott

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  • Kim Scott is an author, speaker, and Co-founder of Radical Candor, an enterprise dedicated to creating productive organizations where respect and collaboration combine. Before co-founding Radical Candor, Kim served as a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies and as a faculty member at Apple University. She also led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google. She is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusivity. Kim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Slavic Literature from Princeton University. Kim joins us today to discuss the art of radical candor and giving, soliciting, and receiving feedback without losing your humanity. She reveals how she came up with the idea of Radical Candor and how she got out of the conundrum between being kind and giving people direct feedback. She explains why the phrase “Don’t take it personally” should be eliminated from your vocabulary. She describes the “Asshole Quadrant” and explains how radical candor differs from “obnoxious aggression.” Kim also elaborates on creating a healthy culture and environment of feedback and offers her best practices for giving and soliciting feedback with radical candor. “Ensure that your praise is specific and sincere and that your criticisms are kind and clear.” - Kim Scott This week on Mastering Overwhelm: Kim’s background and the struggles she faced when she first became a leaderTeaching a dog to sit and Kim’s shift to learning about empathy, care, and radical candorThe “Asshole Quadrant” and how radical candor is different from obnoxious aggressionWhat ruinous empathy meansThe CEO’s challenge with giving and receiving feedbackMaking a safe space for feedback and incentivizing itThe importance of timing when giving radical candorPraise as radical candor and how it can challenge people to be their bestKim’s recipe for staying grounded and centeredHow knowing yourself helps build radical candor Connect with Kim Scott: Kim Scott WebsiteRadical CandorBook: Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-Ass Culture of InclusivityBook: Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your HumanityRadical Candor on LinkedInRadical Candor on InstagramRadical Candor on FacebookRadical Candor on TwitterRadical Candor on MediumThe Radical Candor PodcastKim Scott on LinkedInKim Scott on MediumKim Scott on Twitter Mastering Overwhelm - Set Yourself Free to Enjoy Your Success Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Mastering Overwhelm Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | GooglePlay | Stitcher | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeart | Deezer Be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media to help me reach more listeners like you. Join me on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn. For more exclusive content and information, visit our website.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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