Have you ever been brutally honest with a coworker or an employee? Or do you tend to sugarcoat difficult conversations like a Starbucks Triple Caramel Frappuccino with whipped cream and sprinkles? For today’s episode we tackle the concepts of brutal honesty, radical transparency, and radical candor. We do a deep dive into what they really mean, where they came from, which leaders implement them “correctly”, and what type of outcome they lead to.
RESOURCES
- Coinbase reportedly wants staff to rate each other using an app, adopting a controversial management principle called ‘radical transparency’ – Fortune.
- The world's most successful hedge fund just made a big change — here's a look inside its unique culture
- Bridgewater's Ray Dalio Spreads His Gospel of 'Radical Transparency' - The New York Times
- RAY DALIO: It's 'Fantastic' When We Play Conversations We've Recorded Back To Our Employees
- https://www.businessinsider.com.au/bridgewater-ranked-employees-by-performance-2018-3
- Ray Dalio, head of the world's largest hedge fund, explains his succession plan for Bridgewater and how its 'radically transparent' culture is misunderstood
- Youtube with Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Radical Candor: Why brutal honesty is tech's hottest management trend
- People Have Started Being Brutally Honest To Each Other At Work
- https://www.radicalcandor.com/
HIGHLIGHTS
- 1:45 Introduction of Ray Dalio and Kim Scott
- 2:00 Brutal honesty and radical tramsparency
- 3:38 Four key BridgeWater & Associates principles
- 4:18 Principle #1
- 5:29 Principle #2
- 6:23 Principle #3
- 9:38 “Shit sandwich” definition
- 10:25 Principle #4
- 12:45 Meetings are taped
- 18:02 Kim Scott’s Radical Candor
- 18:57 The Sheryl Sandberg story
- 22:10 What happens if you avoid radical candor.
- 22:17 Obnoxious aggression
- 22:46 Manipulative insincerity
- 23:20 Ruinous empathy
- 26:32 Pushback on these theories
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