5. Radical Candor

Welcome back and happy Monday!This week we are going to take a look at my book’s 5th out of 8 takeaways: Radical Candor

We’ve all fallen fault to having something in our teeth and not knowing about it.

It’s one of the worst feelings. You don’t know about a flaw because you are unaware that it even exists. You’d like to be told about it, but everyone around you feels somewhat uncomfortable telling you.

The equivalent happens in uncreative and unsuccessful companies. Managers and other higher leaders don’t give the real feedback that employees are seeking to hear, to learn and grow from.

Why? Possibly leaders don’t want to come off as too harsh or leaders don’t think the employee will take it the right way.

This is why delivery is key. Let’s go back to the food in the teeth example; when someone you know has food in their teeth, you tend to not blurt out for everyone to hear, “Hey Bob you have something in your teeth!”

Most definitely not. You try to be as discrete as possible, so nobody knows except for you and the other person.

The same should happen in companies, real cold-hard feedback should be given in private.

I talk more about how to respectfully and properly deliver radical candor so it provides more benefit than harm for the person receiving it in my book!

My book is titled — The Creative Company: How Creative Execution and Empathy Result in Long-term Value!

Thank you and I hope you learned and continue to learn something new this week 🤓🧠!