Kim Scott

THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF RADICAL Candor is to achieve results collaboratively that you could never achieve individually. You’ve created a culture of guidance. You’ve created an exemplary team that embodies the Radical Candor ethos of caring personally and challenging directly. As a result, the team is firing on all cylinders; and perhaps most importantly, it has developed a self-correcting quality whereby most problems are solved before you are even aware of them.

The purpose of a 1:1 meeting is to listen and clarify—to understand what direction each person working for you wants to head in, and what is blocking them.

Here’s the agenda that I’ve found to be most effective:
■ Learn: review key metrics (twenty minutes)
■ Listen: put updates in a shared document (fifteen minutes)
■ Clarify: identify key decisions & debates (thirty minutes)

nothing is beneath your attention, then others will pay attention to details as well.

A team’s culture has an enormous impact on its results, and a leader’s personality has a huge impact on a team’s culture.

The most amazing thing about a culture is that once it’s strong, it’s self-replicating. Even though you’ve taken a number of conscious actions to impact it, you’ll know you’ve succeeded when it truly is no longer about you.