Radical Candor

How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean

Rating 4.4
9h 22min
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Description of book

If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all . . . right?

While this advice may work for home life, as Kim Scott has seen first hand, it is a disaster when adopted by managers in the work place.

Scott earned her stripes as a highly successful manager at Google before moving to Apple where she developed a class on optimal management. Radical Candor draws directly on her experiences at these cutting edge companies to reveal a new approach to effective management that delivers huge success by inspiring teams to work better together by embracing fierce conversations.

Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism – delivered to produce better results and help your employees develop their skills and increase success.

Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Scott has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees: make it personal, get stuff done, and understand why it matters.

Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, and distilled clearly to give practical advice to the reader, Radical Candor shows you how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity.

Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people love both their work and their colleagues, and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.

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Length Audiobook:

9h 22min

Language:

English

Published:

3/8/2018

Publisher Audiobook:

Pan Macmillan

ISBN Audiobook:

9781509883066

© 2017 Macmillan Audio (US) (Audiobook)

What other people think

Reviews of Radical Candor

Absolutely wonderful! I want to hear it again right away!

Helena

Some books are just not working as an audiobooks. This is one of them. I realized that very early on, but because I knew I wasn't going to read to it anytime soon, I finished it anyway. I took away the mindset: As a leader, it's important to create an open feedback culture and invest in relationship.

Nora

Särskilt bra för ledare i större bolag.

Per

Super inspiring! I actually ended up buying the physical book so that I can return to things easier.

Henna