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Radical Candor
The book in one sentence
Good bosses show they care about people as human beings and also tell them clearly when their work needs to improve, because one without the other fails everyone.
Who it's for
New and experienced managers who find feedback awkward, and leaders who suspect their team is too polite to tell them the truth.
The big idea
Kim Scott, who led teams at Google and later helped develop management courses at Apple, draws a simple two-by-two grid. One axis is Care Personally. The other is Challenge Directly. When you do both, you are practising Radical Candor. Most management failures come from falling into one of the other three boxes, usually without noticing.
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