The Brutal Truth About Using Brutal Honesty at Work

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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