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Radical Candor:
When management is the only path to higher compensation, the quality of management suffers, and the lives of the people who work for these reluctant managers become miserable.
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063 |
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Radical Candor:
…to build a great team that achieves exceptional results, everybody needs to be doing great work. Accepting mediocrity isn’t good for anybody.
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065 |
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Radical Candor:
When you fire someone, you create the possibility for the person to excel and find happiness performing meaningful work elsewhere.
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069 |
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Radical Candor:
If you can build a culture where people listen to one another, they will start to fix things you as the boss never even knew were broken.
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088 |
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Radical Candor:
Trying to solve a problem that hasn’t been clearly defined is not likely to result in a good solution; debating a half-baked idea is likely to kill it. As the boss, you are the editor, not the author.
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089 |
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Radical Candor:
There’s a lot of research demonstrating that when companies help people develop new ideas by creating the space and time to clarify their thinking, innovation flourishes.
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091 |
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Radical Candor:
When you are listening to people on your team, take on the responsibility to understand – to actually listen – rather than putting the burden to communicate onto them.
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093 |
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Radical Candor:
Nothing is a bigger time-sucker or blocker to getting it right than ego.
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095 |
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Radical Candor:
…kick-ass bosses often do not decide themselves, but rather create a clear decision-making process that empowers the people closest to the facts to make as many decisions as possible.
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099 |
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Radical Candor:
…expecting others to execute on a decision without being persuaded that it’s the right thing to do is a recipe for terrible results.
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101 |
