Lazy Leverage Radical Candor Across Cultures: High Care, High Honesty | Lazy Leverage #81
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Nov 14, 2025 Sofía Bravo, Head of Recruitment at Sagan, shares her expertise on cultural dynamics in Latin America. She explains the phenomenon of performative work, where junior team members focus on justifying mistakes rather than analyzing them. Jon and Sofía discuss the importance of radical candor—high care and high honesty—and how leaders can model this behavior to foster psychological safety. They emphasize the need for clear feedback while avoiding defensive responses and highlight the power of selective praise to reinforce desired behaviors.
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Justification Over Clear Analysis
- Latin American default often prioritizes justification and showing effort rather than clear analysis of what went wrong.
- This leads to long defensive reports instead of concise facts and judgment that managers need.
Six-Page Reports Instead Of Two Sentences
- Junior recruiters sometimes paste candidate materials into ChatGPT and produce six-page reports to appear thorough.
- Jon and Sofía prefer a two-sentence judgment that states the core problem and next step.
Use The Three-Line Thinking Framework
- Tell your manager: what you know, what you don't know, and what you think to be useful.
- Lead with facts, admit gaps, then give confident judgment instead of defensive detail.
