Leading With Radical Candor with Kim Scott

The Evolving Leader

In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are in conversation with Kim Scott. Kim is the author of the best selling ‘Radical Candor, How To Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean’ (2017), ‘Just Work: How to Confront Bias, Prejudice and Bullying to Build a Culture of Inclusivity’ (2021) and the more recently published ‘Radical Respect, How to Work Together Better’ (2024). Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrix and Twitter and she hosts the Radical Candor and Radical Respect podcast.
Referenced during this episode:
Radical Candor, How To Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean
Radical Respect, How to Work Together Better
Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)
The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)
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The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. How did you start a diamond cutting factory in Moscow? (00:04:11)

3. How did you navigate into what you’re doing right now? (00:05:53)

4. Why do you think your massively successful book Radical Candor resonated so well with so many readers? (00:09:19)

5. Thinking about your framework, how does it feel to know that you’ve created something that has had such an effect on so many people? (00:11:37)

6. Can you describe the framework? (00:13:22)

7. When you use your model with teams, how easy is it for people to identify where they should go? What does it take to move them to the top right quadrant? (00:18:11)

8. Can we talk about radical candor in the context of this rapidly changing set of social norms that leaders are having to deal with? (00:25:02)

9. How do people use radical candor to navigate through the AI driven workplace revolution? (00:27:49)

10. Let’s turn to your latest book Radical Respect. What is it aiming to solve? (00:34:44)

11. Can you give us an example of the kind of things that are most countercultural in how you operationalise radical respect? (00:38:42)

12. Where do you get your source code? (00:48:35)

13. Can we talk about the current state of leadership across the world? (00:51:05)

14. Let’s think about the next generation of leaders. How can we accelerate the maturation of people so these things are learnt sooner? (00:55:46)

15. Thinking about your legacy and what you’re doing, what is it that you’re hoping to bring about as a change in leadership? (00:59:41)

16. What’s next for you? (01:01:25)

17. On this podcast, we’ve been wondering about the rise in the zero sum mindset particularly amongst the younger generation. How do you think we develop more positive sum mindsets around the big challenges facing us? (01:02:51)

18. Will you move into politics one day? (01:06:13)