Kim ScottRadical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition
Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better. She co-founded an executive education company that helps people put the ideas in her books into practice. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google. Earlier in her career she managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow. She lives with her family in Silicon Valley.
Preface to the Revised Edition: Radical Candor on Radical Candor
Introduction
How to Use This Book
Part I: A NEW MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY
1. BUILD RADICALLY CANDID RELATIONSHIPS - Bringing your whole self to work
2. GET, GIVE AND ENCOURAGE GUIDANCE - Creating a culture of open
communication
3. UNDERSTAND WHAT MOTIVATES EACH PERSON ON YOUR TEAM - Helping people take
a step in the direction of their dreams
4. DRIVE RESULTS COLLABORATIVELY - Telling people what to do doesn't work
Part II: TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
5. RELATIONSHIPS - An approach to establishing trust with your direct
reports
6. GUIDANCE - Ideas for getting/giving/encouraging praise & criticism
7. TEAM - Techniques for avoiding boredom and burn-out
8. RESULTS - Things you can do to get stuff done together-faster
Getting Started
Afterword to the Revised Edition: Rolling Out Radical Candor
Bonus Chapter: A Radically Candid Performance Review
