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  • How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean
  • By: Kim Scott
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  • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (324 ratings)

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Radical Candor

By: Kim Scott
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The old adage is ingrained in us that if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all. While this advice may work for home life, as Kim Scott has seen firsthand, it is a disaster when adopted by managers in the workplace.

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 employees develop their skills and boundaries of success.

Great bosses have strong relationships 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 firsthand experience, and distilled clearly to give actionable lessons to the listener, Radical Candor shows 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 both love their work and their colleagues and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.

©2017 Kim Scott (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio

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great listen for a better team culture

Need to listen to this again and again for better team culture. Kim does a great job of explaining her concepts with powerful case studies along the way

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Great book but it’s missing a PDF with the meditations

A gripping and inspiring transformation story packed into a small book. Well read story by the author.

Unfortunately, the book doesn’t come with a PDF with all the meditation at the end of each chapter. Without a writer cheat sheet it’s difficult to follow them.

Please to make the audio book complete. Thank you.

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Simple but highly effective and valuable advice

Kim gives simple advice about dealing with tricky conversations through becoming a leader who listens and values others and in turn, achieves great outcomes! Excellent examples of her interesting career life!
I wish there was a PDF of the information displayed in tables or graphics as an extra.

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A must read for every people leader

In a world brimming with leadership advice, Radical Candor stands out as a practical, relatable guide to building stronger, more effective teams. Kim’s authentic voice and insightful storytelling make the book an engaging and informative read, well-suited for both veteran managers and those just starting their leadership journey. The concepts are interesting and a few of them could sound very familiar to the seasoned managers.

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Solid gold.

It’s a knock out for the less emotionally intelligent or under skilled of us all. After all how many ppl get to see the world through these eyes.

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Radically painful

I could have gotten over the annoying voice if the content was any good. Seems the author is trying too hard to be cool, I swear like a trooper but got over the incessant swearing to emphasise every second sentence.

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Foundation to Management

This book had a lot of great concepts for managers like superstar and rockstars, touched on setting expectations from direct reports, and talks about the don'ts of managers.

However, there are chapters that are less engaging and can feel like some concepts ot storing and repetitive by the end of the book.

if you are new to managing, you will still take something away from this book.

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I love this book!

If you are managing a team this is a must read 👍🏻👌. Great practical tips for managing the soft skills side of getting the most out of people and for them to enjoy work more.

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Best leadership book I’ve read recently

Incredibly practical, with guides on how to steps. I would highly recommend this to any leader/new leader.

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Excellent book

Really interesting - directly relating to my job as a manager and a huge amount I can take away to improve my day to day role

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