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How to Apply Radical Candor to Your Hiring Process to Build and Retain a Great Team

Your hiring process is important; it’s a vital part of building a great team. When hiring, you’re obviously looking for people who will be great at the job. But should you be hiring people in rock-star mode or people in superstar mode?

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Radical Respect: What Are Your Roles and Responsibilities Regarding Injustice at Work?

Whenever injustice at work happens, you will play at least one of four different roles: person harmed, upstander, person who caused harm, or leader. You may at different moments play all the roles. And sometimes, confusingly, you may even find...

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Balancing Growth and Stability: Why Your Team Needs People On Both Steep and Gradual Growth Trajectories

This post about balancing team growth and stability is an adapted excerpt from Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. Get bulk book discounts for teams and download our reading guide to test your knowledge of the concepts as...

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People Don't Leave Jobs, They Leave Managers — Here's How to Be a Thought Partner Instead of an Absentee or Micromanager

You may have heard the saying: people don't leave their jobs, they leave their managers. More specifically, they leave micromanagers and absentee managers.

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22 Books to Gift the Current and Aspiring Leaders In Your Life

There's something special about getting a book you love from someone who gets you. During the 2022 holiday season, show the people around you that you're paying attention by selecting a book that will help them reach their goals.

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Radical Pay Transparency Can Narrow Unfair Disparities and Create an Environment Where People Can Focus On Doing Their Best Work

I recently spoke to CGTN and the New York Times about new pay transparency laws that require employers to disclose salary ranges. These new laws are the first step toward narrowing unjust disparities that create significant roadblocks to success for...

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Are You a Manager of Managers? Here's How Speak-Truth-To-Power Meetings Can Make Your Workplace More Equitable

One of the most important things any manager of managers can do to foster a culture of Radical Candor is to have so-called “skip-level meetings.” I don’t love the term “skip level” because it reinforces hierarchy and the whole point of this process...

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3 Easy Steps to Staff Meetings That Don't Suck

Every CEO, middle manager and first-time manager I have ever worked with has struggled to figure out how to run a productive staff meeting.

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7 Things to Know About 1:1 Meetings that Will Make You a Better Boss

Having one-on-one meetings on a regular cadence with each of your direct reports is probably the most important thing you do as a manager.

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6 Steps for Setting Measurable Goals to Avoid "Productivity Paranoia"

With more people working in remote and hybrid environments than ever before, company, team and individual goals must be explicit and measurable. Setting goals is an ideal way to stave off what Microsoft calls "productivity paranoia."

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