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30 Leadership Lessons I've Learned In 30 Years of Leading Teams

Dan Greene is an accomplished leader with a talent for growing and scaling organizations and inspiring teams to achieve exceptional results. This includes leading and scaling sales organizations at Google, Twitter, Impossible Foods, and several...

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How to Receive Feedback: 6 Tips for Receiving Feedback Well

Russ Laraway wrote this post about how to receive feedback. The chief people officer at Goodwater Capital who also developed Career Conversations, his book When They Win, You Win, provides a simple, coherent, and complete leadership standard that...

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How to Avoid Kicking Up When Giving Upward Feedback

You may have heard the phrase “kissing up and kicking down,” which refers to the tendency of some people to try to please and flatter their bosses while taking out frustrations on the people who report to them. While this is a common behavior, I’ve...

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A Great Start to a Radical Candor Journey

A few weeks ago, we received an amazing email from Samir Sagar, Director at Manubhai Jewellers. He had shared some of our blog posts and videos with his team several weeks prior, and on the day of the email to us, had held a meeting with his five...

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Radical Candor and the Candor Canary at Gem

We have a great story to share with you about a company that rolled out Radical Candor in their organization. Gem, a Los Angeles-based blockchain company focused on healthcare and supply chain, recently introduced their 20-person team to Radical...

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Are you an Absentee Manager, a Micromanager, or a Thought Partner?

In Episode 13 of our podcast we talked about the dreaded micromanager boss and how to work towards a better relationship with them. As a part of that discussion, we briefly talked about a few ‘modes’ a manager might fall into based on how close they...

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Are You An Interrupter? How to Stop Interrupting People

We talked about one of the most frustrating meeting habits in episode 12 of our podcast -- interrupting! Kim and I gave some tips about how to handle being interrupted in meetings, and Kim explained some of the reasons that cause people to...

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