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Manipulative Insincerity

Toxic Culture
Practice Radical Candor to Combat These 3 Toxic Workplace Behaviors

Practice Radical Candor to Combat These 3 Toxic Workplace Behaviors

A new survey from FlexJobs noted that 68% of people who recently quit their jobs did so without having another…

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10 Free Resources to Help You Practice Radical Candor

10 Free Resources to Help You Practice Radical Candor

"Getting and giving impromptu feedback is more like brushing and flossing than getting a root canal," Radical Candor author and…

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Challenging Conversations
The Biggest Reason We Run from Challenging Conversations

The Biggest Reason We Run from Challenging Conversations

In order to build Radically Candid relationships, it's important that you don't try to prevent, control or manage other people’s…

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Feedback, the Law, and Mandated Manipulative Insincerity

Feedback, the Law, and Mandated Manipulative Insincerity

I spend a lot of time these days showing people how to put the Radical Candor framework of “Care Personally…

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Keeping it Real

Keeping it Real

The good news is that the term “Radical Candor” has entered the lexicon. The bad news is that there’s a…

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Video: A Manipulative Insincerity Story

Video: A Manipulative Insincerity Story

Manipulative Insincerity is the worst of the quadrants in our Radical Candor 2x2 because you don't Challenge Directly or show you…

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Video: Kim’s Manipulative Insincerity Story

Video: Kim’s Manipulative Insincerity Story

Remember that the labels that we use for the Radical Candor framework (Radical Candor, Ruinous Empathy, Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity)…

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Video: A Journey to Manipulative Insincerity

Video: A Journey to Manipulative Insincerity

We've shared a couple of stories from Russ, telling about a time he was Ruinously Empathetic with his feedback, and…

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Video: From Obnoxious Aggression to Manipulative Insincerity

Video: From Obnoxious Aggression to Manipulative Insincerity

Most of us don't consider ourselves to be jerks or rude people. So if we discover that we've been Obnoxiously…

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Fighting Bloviating BS with Radical Candor

Fighting Bloviating BS with Radical Candor

Radical Candor can be applied not just in feedback conversations, but in all interactions. Think for example about Radical Candor…

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