The Radical Candor Matrix

The Radical Candor Matrix categorizes behaviors into four quadrants based on caring personally and challenging directly. Radical Candor is in the upper right quadrant where you care and challenge directly. Ruinous empathy is in the upper left quadrant when you care personally but fail to challenge directly. Obnoxious aggression is in the lower right quadrant when you challenge directly but don't care personally. Finally, the lower left quadrant is manipulative insincerity or apathy when you neither care nor challenge directly, which is a detrimental place to be.