Kim Scott

Kim Scott is the author of the NYT bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better. She was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies, and a faculty member at Apple University. Before that, Kim led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google. She co-hosts the podcast and co-founded the company Radical Candor.

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 Candid means:

Read More

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.

Read More

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 confirming the stereotype raises that person’s level of anxiety and makes it harder to perform at one’s best.

Read More

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 excerpted from Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

Read More

Get Stuff Done: 4 Steps to Implementing Your Ideas at Work

*This article about how to successfully implement ideas is part of our new series about the Get Stuff Done (GSD) Wheel and has been excerpted from Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. Read the previous post about...

Read More

How to Persuade Others You’ve Made the Right Decisions

*This article about persuasion is part of our new series about the Get Stuff Done (GSD) Wheel and has been excerpted from Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

Read More

4 Things to Consider When Making Decisions to Get Shit Done

*This article about making decisions is part of our new series about the Get Stuff Done (GSD) Wheel and has been excerpted from Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

Read More

6 Steps to Successfully Debating (Not Killing) Ideas

*This article about debating ideas is part of our new series about the Get Stuff Done (GSD) Wheel and has been excerpted from Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

Read More

Emotional Labor and The Great Resignation — 2 Things to Know

The story below is from a time in my career 20 years ago, long before we were in the grips of the current global Covid-19 pandemic. I’m sharing it now because I thought it might help managers who are struggling with the emotional labor of being the...

Read More

Get Stuff Done: 2 Ways to Use Radical Candor to Clarify Thoughts and Ideas

*This article about clarifying your thinking is part of our new series about the Get Stuff Done (GSD) Wheel and has been excerpted from Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

Read More