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Kim Scott

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“Absolutely. Radical candor is just what happens when you care personally and challenge directly at the same time. And I think it's probably best understood by what it's not, because we all fail on one of those two dimensions or both of them multiple times a day. So if you could think about it as a two by two framework. On the vertical axis is care personally, the horizontal axis is challenged directly. What happens when we remembered a challenge directly, but we forget to show that we care personally? That is what I call obnoxious aggression. And it's really important to distinguish between radical candor and obnoxious aggression. I think one of the mistakes that people often make about, and I've gotten a lot of, you write a book about feedback, you're going to get a lot of it. And I've heard a lot of feedback that sometimes teams will be rolling out the idea of radical candor and someone will charge into the room and say, in the spirit of radical candor, and then they act like a”
2023-12-10 · Lenny's Podcast · Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you say, Do you have any feedback for me? You're wasting your breath. The other person's going to say, Oh no, everything's fine. The question that I like to ask is, what could I do or stop doing that would make it easier to work with me? Do not write down my question because if you sound like Kim Scott and not like yourself, then other people are not going to believe you want the answer. It needs to sound authentic to you. And if everybody can write down their question, who they're going to ask it of, and then pop it into their calendar right now, this will be one of the most productive podcasts in all of podcast land.”
2023-12-10 · Lenny's Podcast · Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source