A great way to practice the principles of Radical Candor is by starting a virtual book club. We’ve put together this list of Radical Candor book club questions to get you started with the discussions for each chapter.
Telling a person at the last minute that you can’t fulfill a commitment does real damage to your relationship. Of course, sh*t happens. Sometimes you can’t keep your commitments for reasons you could never have predicted. When that happens, as it...
We talk a lot about how to give feedback, how to be helpful, humble, immediate, how to balance praise and criticism, etc. But as hard as it is to try to be good at giving feedback, it can be even harder to try to get the feedback you need. We can...
Esther Bintliff recently interviewed me for the Financial Times about Radical Candor — feedback that is kind, clear, specific and sincere — and some folks have asked me what I think about Avraham Kluger’s research, which Bintliff also referenced in...
While the thought of giving or getting feedback might conjure up dread, or as one friend said to me when I told her where I worked, "Hearing the word 'feedback' causes me to involuntarily clench my buttocks," most people do want feedback, especially...
Join Kim Scott, author of Just Work and Radical Candor, in her new Career Development Book Club on Fable.
This post on performance development originally appeared on Bonusly, a company building tools to help people feel a sense of purpose and progress at work. Most everyone has had a boss who failed at performance development—helping people on their...
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.
A new survey from FlexJobs noted that 68% of people who recently quit their jobs did so without having another job lined up. What's more, the number one reason people cited for resigning is toxic company culture. I left an organization six years ago...
"Getting and giving impromptu feedback is more like brushing and flossing than getting a root canal," Radical Candor author and co-founder Kim Scott says. "Don’t schedule it. Just ask for it and offer it consistently and immediately when it’s...