Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

by Kim Scott

Hardcover, 2019

Status

Available

Call number

89001

Description

"A revised edition of Kim Scott's perennial bestseller that created a cultural revolution and took workplaces worldwide by storm. Radical Candor is back with an all new foreword, afterword, FAQ, and radically candid performance review. From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. When you become a manager, it's your job to say it-and your obligation. Author Kim Scott was an executive at Google and then Apple, where she worked with a team to develop a class on how to be a good boss. What emerged was her vital new approach to effective management, Radical Candor. Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring it's obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging it's ruinous empathy. When you do neither it's manipulative insincerity. This simple framework can help you build better relationships at work, and fulfill your three key responsibilities as a leader: creating a culture of feedback, building a cohesive team, and achieving results you're all proud of. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, for bosses and those who manage bosses. Taken from the author's experience and giving actionable lessons to the reader, it shows managers how to be successful while retaining their humanity, finding meaning in their job, and creating an environment where people love both their work and their colleagues"--… (more)

Publication

St. Martin's Press (2019), Edition: Updated, 336 pages

User reviews

LibraryThing member KingRat
A quote: Think about it— whether it's the gay man forced to weather anti-gay jokes or the conservative force to weather anti-conservative jokes, the result is the same— some part of them is negated, and they can't help feeling alienated, not free at work.

No, these situations are not the same,
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Kim Scott. One denies the humanity of a person. The other makes it more difficult to express an increasingly loathsome philosophy that more and more denies the humanity of vast swaths of our population.
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LibraryThing member dualmon
Worthwhile read, especially for managers

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

336 p.; 9.43 inches

ISBN

1250235375 / 9781250235374
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