When Radical Candor exploded onto the business world in 2017, the story was that this book justified and celebrated the effectiveness of being an a-hole to your people. "Candor" was the code for "being mean," and it was all ok because it worked.
Reading Radical Candor by Kim Scott, you get a much more nuanced (and useful) take on how to be an effective leader by challenging directly AND caring personally.
This episode of the Books Applied Podcast is a fast-paced conversation with Brandi Oldham that hits on what Kim Scott actually said about Radical Candor and how to do it well. We get into the four traps to avoid when delivering radical candor and how to be an excellent communicator and leader.
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