The Importance of Radical Transparency in the Workplace

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Radical transparency is designed to solve for a deadly sin of work life, office politics. In too many places, what happens in the meeting doesn't matter nearly as much as secret alliances and conversations after the meeting. You're able to just say what you think and also be held accountable for what you're thinking is bad. But for it to work, you need all of your colleagues to get past their knee jerk reactions to criticism.

What if you could tell your co-workers what you really think of them? At one of the world’s most successful hedge funds, everyone is rated and ranked constantly – in front of everyone. They’ve figured out how to embrace negative feedback, and they swear it’s essential to their success. Adam Grant shows how you can learn to take criticism well – and get better at dishing it out.

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