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Resisting Coercion and Conformity Demands a Conscious Design: Here's How to Get Started

Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better and co-founder of Radical Candor, a company that helps people put the ideas in her books into practice....

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Navigating Feedback Conversations On Diverse Teams

By Nahla Davies, a software developer and tech writer. Before devoting her work full-time to technical writing, she managed—among other intriguing things—to serve as a lead programmer at an Inc. 5,000 experiential branding organization whose clients...

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Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better

Radical Candor author and co-founder Kim Scott announced the launch of her new book, Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better (St. Martin’s Griffin | May 7, 2024 | $19) at SXSW.

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What Leaders Can Learn About "In-Group" Dynamics to Prevent Workplace Mobbing

By Delia Grenville, a senior executive leader with more than 25 years of experience in high-tech roles. She is also a TEDx speaker, moderator of the 30dayrules.com online community, author of Rants + Ramblings On Life and Wellness: A book of general...

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How to Overcome Protective Hesitation So EVERYONE Gets the Feedback They Deserve to Learn and Grow

Shortly after she published Radical Candor, Kim Scott realized that biased feedback and protective hesitation make giving and receiving guidance more difficult for underrepresented employees.

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This is What it Feels Like to be Bullied Out of a Job You Love

This piece about being bullied at work by Wesley Faulkner was originally published on the Just Work blog.

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Here's How to Stop Disempowering Your Employees and Start Creating a Cohesive Team

A leader’s job is to ensure that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It seems it should go without saying that belittling each part is not a good way to achieve that goal. But too often bosses are not subject to checks and balances in...

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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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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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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 or rationalizations I’ve used for remaining silent when it would have been better for me to speak up.

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