6 Common Ways We Rationalize Staying Silent When We’d Be Better Off Speaking Up
The pressure to be silent comes in a dizzying array of disguises, internal and external. Here are some common excuses…
Join Kim Scott’s Free ‘Fighting Tyranny’ Book Club to Better Understand What Russia is Doing in Ukraine
OK, folks, this may seem out of left field. But here goes: I started a book group on a new…
6 Tips for Giving Helpful Feedback
The best feedback is Radically Candid. It Challenges Directly while showing you Care Personally. To make that easier to do,…
A HIP Approach to Feedback: 6 Tips to Help You Practice Radical Candor
We’re all about helping people become more Radically Candid with their feedback. By feedback, we mean praise and criticism. Being Radically…
Why Praising in Public and Criticizing in Private is Key to Giving Feedback Others Will Act On
A good rule of thumb for guidance is praise in public, criticize in private. Public criticism tends to trigger a…
How Does Stereotype Threat Affect Feedback?
One’s awareness of a negative stereotype about a group to which one belongs can actually harm one’s performance: fear of…
5 Reasons People On a Steep Growth Trajectory Aren’t Performing Well (and What to Do About it)
*This article about poor performance while on a steep growth trajectory has been adapted from Radical Candor: Be a Kickass…
The Problem With Passion: Not Everyone Who Works for You Loves their Job, and that’s OK
*This article has been adapted from Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity with additional reporting by…
How to Get Stuff Done: Never Stop Learning
*This article about learning is part of our new series about the Get Stuff Done (GSD) Wheel and has been…
Get Stuff Done: 4 Steps to Executing Your Ideas at Work
*This article about how to successfully execute ideas is part of our new series about the Get Stuff Done (GSD)…