Radical Candor: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean

Interesting read. Some thought provoking points through out.

Really engaging, challenging conversations never easy but she gives you so many practical tips that support the care personally challenge directly.

Business books are usually frowned on with their clichés. This does have some sage advice. Read a chapter a day. Make notes, Re-read. Can be applied if you manage staff, improve your work and how you deal and interact with different people, not just work. Useful as a philosophy for a workplace IF it comes from the top. Hard to apply if you don't have everyone onboard.

Great book. If you are in a leadership position and want to drive positive culture, read this book!

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Usual management stuff.. nothing new

Let me start by saying that if you work for a company the contents of this book are invaluable. But it's also highly useful for everyone to use in any aspect of life. It gives a useful and easy to apply quadrant framework on how to approach communication of feedback. This quadrant diagram alone is earth shatteringly useful, particularly if you work in an organisation which has developed a blame culture. The edition I read also has bonus chapters with additional information on performance management Vs developmental chats which again was incredibly useful. However, in the spirit of caring personally and challenging directly, it loses a star because I felt that the contents of the book could have been better organised to allow busy managers to refer back to it more easily. It felt like I was listening to myself speaking about how to improve things where I work, and one of the things I'm working on is trying to be more concise and focussed with my guidance and make the resources I share able to be more easily used for reference. I genuinely believe that Radical Candor is the solution to so many problems where I work, and my passion for what I can clearly see leads me off on tangents when I talk about it in ways which, although highly relevant to me sometimes leave others a bit lost and confused. The challenge will be getting those in power in my company to see the benefits of Radical Candor instead of being ruinously empathetic or worse, manipulatively insincere. The reason I love reading self development books is I find they live on longer after the back cover has been closed through the application of the ideas they contain, but sometimes that can be difficult. A more logical structure would make sure this book will be used as a living success manual and won't be consigned to the shelves to gather dust. I've highlighted the hell out of my copy to make sure I can keep it alive. Life changing stuff.

Brilliant book which all line managers and HR professionals should read