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Kim Scott

Radical Candor

Lead with clarity and care—achieve great results without being a jerk or a pushover.
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What's You Learn?
Caring personally while challenging directly creates best results – Radical Candor by Kim Scott provides a framework for feedback that helps people grow. This comprehensive feedback framework and leadership strategies explain:
  • Four Quadrants - Radical candor, ruinous empathy, manipulative insincerity, obnoxious aggression
  • Care Personally - Show you give a damn about people as humans
  • Challenge Directly - Clear, specific feedback helps people improve
  • Praise and Criticize - Both matter; be equally specific
2025 application: Remote work makes radical candor harder but more necessary than ever. Practice your Click.Apply.Grow™ candor: Care genuinely first. Challenge with specifics. Invite criticism. Radically candid leaders achieve 50% better team performance and trust. Care deeply. Challenge directly.

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About the Author

Kim Scott is a former Google and Apple executive who coined "Radical Candor" fixing the epidemic of ineffective feedback destroying workplace culture.

Led teams at Google (YouTube, AdSense doubling revenue to $100M+), Apple University faculty member, Twitter and Dropbox advisor. CEO of Candor Inc. Her TED talk exceeded 5 million views. "Radical Candor" translated into 20 languages. Harvard MBA, Rhodes Scholar finalist. Managed 700-person team at Google.

2025 relevance: Scott's framework addresses why remote work made honest feedback 75% harder, providing specific solutions for virtual radical candor.

Teams practicing Radical Candor show 35% faster growth trajectories and 50% lower turnover. Silicon Valley standard for feedback culture.

The executive who ended ruinous empathy.

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