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Kim Scott is an American author, speaker, and former executive at Google and Apple. She is known for her work on leadership and workplace culture, and for founding Radical Candor LLC, which helps organizations create better communication and feedback practices.
Known for: Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better
Books by Kim Scott
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Radical Candor is a management and leadership book that teaches how to build better relationships at work by caring personally while challenging directly. Kim Scott, drawing from her experience at Goo...
Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better
In 'Radical Respect', Kim Scott expands on the ideas from her earlier work 'Radical Candor' to explore how individuals and organizations can build workplaces rooted in respect, collaboration, and incl...
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Understanding the Four Quadrants of Feedback
The framework at the center of Radical Candor can be visualized as a simple two-by-two grid — straightforward, but profound when lived out every day. On one axis lies 'Care Personally'; on the other, 'Challenge Directly'. It’s at the intersection of these two dimensions that Radical Candor resides —...
From Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Feedback as the Core of Leadership and Growth
At its essence, leadership is about guidance — helping others see what they can’t yet see in themselves. Feedback is the vehicle for that guidance. The most effective leaders I’ve encountered don’t shy away from tough conversations; they embrace them as their most sacred responsibility. In Radical ...
From Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Defining Respect
Respect, as I define it, is not the same thing as being nice or agreeable. Too often, workplaces mistake politeness for respect, when in truth, niceness can mask avoidance or even complicity. Real respect begins with the willingness to see other people as whole human beings—complex, imperfect, equal...
From Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better
Understanding Bias
Bias is the unintentional first crack in respect. It’s the set of shortcuts our brains take to navigate a complex world, often without awareness. When left unchecked, bias quietly distorts fairness and skews decisions—from who gets invited to speak in a meeting to who’s considered ‘leadership materi...
From Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better
About Kim Scott
Kim Scott is an American author, speaker, and former executive at Google and Apple. She is known for her work on leadership and workplace culture, and for founding Radical Candor LLC, which helps organizations create better communication and feedback practices. Scott has also taught management cours...
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Kim Scott is an American author, speaker, and former executive at Google and Apple. She is known for her work on leadership and workplace culture, and for founding Radical Candor LLC, which helps organizations create better communication and feedback practices. Scott has also taught management cours...
Kim Scott is an American author, speaker, and former executive at Google and Apple. She is known for her work on leadership and workplace culture, and for founding Radical Candor LLC, which helps organizations create better communication and feedback practices. Scott has also taught management courses at Harvard Business School and is recognized for her contributions to modern leadership thinking.
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Kim Scott is an American author, speaker, and former executive at Google and Apple. She is known for her work on leadership and workplace culture, and for founding Radical Candor LLC, which helps organizations create better communication and feedback practices.
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