I recently read Radical Candor: Be a Kick-ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.
It focuses on keeping it real in the workplace: bringing your whole self to work everyday and encouraging your team to do so. Author Kim Scott argues that if leaders can tow the line between being obnoxiously aggressive or ruinously empathetic, the balance is about having a heart and pushing the team to bigger bolder outcomes.
My key take aways:
Radical Candor exists in the balance between:
Caring personally + Challenging directly. Without both facets, leaders are in one of three other quadrants: Ruinous empathy (no challenge); Obnoxious aggression (no care); or Manipulative insecurity (no challenge, no care).
How to get stuff done (GSD) without telling people what to do in 7 easy steps:
- Listen
- Clarify
- Debate
- Decide
- Persuade
- Execute
- Learn
- Start again at Listen
Great read!
Highly recommend for leaders working to improve providing direct, open, honest feedback and radically candid teams.