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  • Radical Candor

  • How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean
  • By: Kim Scott
  • Narrated by: Kim Scott
  • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,088 ratings)

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Read by the author, Kim Scott

A practical guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, Radical Candor shows you how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. From Kim Scott, former manager at Google and Apple, and CEO coach to Silicon Valley.


'Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives' – Sheryl Sandberg, former chief operating officer at Meta (Facebook) and author of Lean In

If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all . . . right?

While this advice may work for home life, as Kim Scott has seen first hand, it is a disaster when adopted by managers in the work place.

Scott earned her stripes as a highly successful manager at Google before moving to Apple where she developed a class on optimal management. Radical Candor draws directly on her experiences at these cutting edge companies to reveal a new approach to effective management that delivers huge success by inspiring teams to work better together by embracing fierce conversations.

Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism – delivered to produce better results and help your employees develop their skills and increase success.

Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Scott has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees:

  • Make it personal
  • Get stuff done
  • Understand why it matters


Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people love both their work and their colleagues, and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.

'If you manage people - whether it be 1 person or a 1,000 - you need Radical Candor. Now' – Daniel H. Pink, author of the New York Times bestseller Drive

©2017 Kim Scott (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio
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lessons for life

this will not only help your professional life, it will help your personal life.

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Incredible !

Such clarity on how to move teams forward and create the culture I want. The best part is the methods are tried and tested

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Great content well structured and delivered

The content is relevant for me as an IC working in the tech industry. Even though I don’t manage a team now, it does give me framework to mentor and better partner with my own manager. I’m excited to try practicing radical candor at work

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Exceptional practical advice

The author trully knows how to make her advice resonate with the reader. The book is packed with personal stories and realistic suggestions on improving one's effectiveness as a manager. I have learnt much from this, eg the value of praise and how to give it constructively, and I have already changed my ways to reflect this. I highly recommend this book as well as the radical candor podcast.

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LOTS OF GREAT ADVICE FOR RUNNING SUCCESSFUL TEAMS

I loved the book.
it was full of real examples and situations and provided practical ways of addressing these in order to create high performing successful teams.

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Must read for every manager

I though this book was mostly about communication, but in reality is how to be a good manager (or boss, as the author says). It points out the mistakes managers often make and gives tips on how to fix them.

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good book. it was some of the tips straight away!

I really enjoyed the book very informative especially like the reflective parts and the repetition that helped you remember the advice.

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An absolute must read

I loved listening to the book. The lessons are based on true real life stories.
It's good for anyone including those not in management at work because many principles can be expanded to other areas of life.

I've listened over time rather than in one sitting. It's not a book to sprint on IMO.

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Great book full of compassionate conscious leadership

Great book full of compassionate conscious leadership. I wholeheartedly recommend it to you, listen while you walk.

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Great management book

This book offers a lot of helpful insight on the topic, covering proper mindset and explanation for how to approach different situations, and also some great examples and stories.
The narration could be far better though. The voice is harsh, even barking, which kept irritating me throughout entire book.

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