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Ruinous Empathy

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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Care Personally
Acting Like a Jerk by Not Caring Personally is a Radical Candor Fail

Acting Like a Jerk by Not Caring Personally is a Radical Candor Fail

What makes Radical Candor radical is that it’s a deviation from the norm, which tends to fall somewhere between acting…

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Ruinous Empathy and Recruiting, A Story

Ruinous Empathy and Recruiting, A Story

Seven years ago, before launching Femgineer and having Kim Scott on FemgineerTV, I had to make my first sales hire for…

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Video: A Ruinous Empathy Story

Video: A Ruinous Empathy Story

Kim shares a story about a time that she describes as the worst moment of her career. She learns a…

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Video: A Ruinous Empathy Story

Video: A Ruinous Empathy Story

Have you ever held back from saying what you really thought at work because you didn't want to hurt someone's…

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Video: A Ruinous Empathy Story

Video: A Ruinous Empathy Story

Stephanie Usry cared personally about her co-worker -- she was one of her best friends! Because of this, Stephanie found herself in…

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Video: A Ruinous Empathy Story

Video: A Ruinous Empathy Story

Many of us struggle with Ruinous Empathy. We want to build and maintain relationships with people, so we don't want…

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Praise & Ruinous Empathy

Praise can be Ruinously Empathetic when bosses try to be “nice” and get things wrong. Below are a few cautionary…

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