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Radical Candor

How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean

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Radical Candor

By: Kim Scott
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Read by the author, Kim Scott

A practical guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, Radical Candor shows you how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. From Kim Scott, former manager at Google and Apple, and CEO coach to Silicon Valley.


'Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives' – Sheryl Sandberg, former chief operating officer at Meta (Facebook) and author of Lean In

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
  • Understand why it matters


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.

'If you manage people - whether it be 1 person or a 1,000 - you need Radical Candor. Now' – Daniel H. Pink, author of the New York Times bestseller Drive

©2017 Kim Scott (P)2017 Macmillan Audio (US)
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Useful Examples • Relatable Stories • Helpful Concepts • Practical Guidelines • Credible Experience • Amazing Book
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Amazing business book on how to be a manager. Management 101 you could say. It talks about the basics and core practices of being a good manager.

My only grief is that it felt too long compared to other books. Perhaps it was how stories were mixed with theory that it felt longer than it was.

Very Interesting. A bit too long

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it is really useful
clear yet unprescriptive
firat part is a story
then some usefull what happend and why does it matter
then you have exaples and dos and donts
its not just about how to speak with people on your level or across your levels in your organisation its a starter ob ypur journey of becoming a leader or working with leaders
i loved it

how to become a boss people love working with

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I got recommended this book by a potential employee during an interview. Decided to give it a go - loved every bit of it. This book made it straight to our SPLENTO MUST READ LIST, that all Splento’s employees are encourages to read and all super-stars undoubtedly will read.

Highly recommend it!

Roman
CEO, Splento

Straight To Must Read List

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This book is amazing, but with poor narration I wish I should have just read it.

Amazing concepts, useful tips, but poor narration

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The framework presented in Radical Candor is useful to keep conversations genuine and on track.

While the author wrote a helpful book, she should not have narrated it. A skilled narrator would have made this book much more enjoyable.

Helpful Framework, Poor Narration

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Kim does a incredible job describing techniques and solutions to solve a lot of problems that probably every manager faces.

Best book for manager I’ve ever read

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really great book, blowing away any fears that you may have about honesty in the workplace

gives a different perspective on being honest

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I loved this book, I recommend it to every manager. I guarantee that you find at least one interesting thing you should change in your managerial style.

The best book ever

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It was so good I bought the hard copy to look better into recommened guidelines in the book

Useful guidelines

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I think this should be included in management training programs. Very practical to implement and based on author's credible experience.

Refreshingly candid guidance.

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