Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
About this product
* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running
* Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide * A Hudson and Indigo Best Book of the Year
* Recommended by Shona Brown, Rachel Hollis, Jeff Kinney, Daniel Pink, Sheryl Sandberg, and Gretchen Rubin
Radical Candor has been embraced around the world by leaders of every stripe at companies of all sizes. Now a cultural touchstone, the concept has come to be applied to a wide range of human relationships.
The idea is simple : You don't have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor―avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy―you can be kind and clear at the same time.
Kim Scott was a highly successful leader at Google before decamping to Apple, where she developed and taught a management class. Since the original publication of Radical Candor in 2017, Scott has earned international fame with her vital approach to effective leadership and co-founded the Radical Candor executive education company, which helps companies put the book's philosophy into practice.
Radical Candor is about caring personally and challenging directly, about soliciting criticism to improve your leadership and also providing guidance that helps others grow. It focuses on praise but doesn't shy away from criticism―to help you love your work and the people you work with.
Radically Candid relationships with team members enable bosses to fulfill their three core responsibilities:
1. Create a culture of Compassionate Candor
2. Build a cohesive team
3. Achieve results collaboratively
Required reading for the most successful organizations, Radical Candor has raised the bar for management practices worldwide. Read more
Editor's Take
Readers generally describe Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition as practical, easy to apply, and especially useful for managers who want clearer feedback habits. Goodreads reviewers frequently praise the book’s concrete framework and say it helps them think differently about giving criticism and praise, while some Goodreads and Reddit comments note that the approach can feel overly simplistic or potentially misused in the wrong hands.
Amazon reviewer snippets for the broader edition feedback are also mostly positive, with readers calling it a strong leadership resource, a quick read, and a helpful alternative to old feedback models. Walmart and Google Play review snippets show similar sentiment, highlighting usefulness for leadership training and workplace communication.
On Reddit, discussions are more mixed: some users say the book is worth reading and acknowledge that Kim Scott has updated the work with newer ideas, while others criticize it as too blunt or easy to weaponize as a management style.
YouTube search results surfaced multiple real video URLs about the book and Kim Scott, including reviews, explainers, and talks. The strongest matches for this exact product were review-style videos and author-led discussions.
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Specifications
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
| Publication date | October 1, 2019 |
| Edition | Updated |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 336 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1250235375 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1250235374 |
| Item Weight | 1.15 pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.55 x 1.2 x 9.55 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,060 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in Management Science #2 in Entrepreneurship (Books) #4 in Human Resources & Personnel Management (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (10,078) |
