Kim Scott
11 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 7, 2017 by Kim Scott · said 15 times in 6 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Ryan Smith (4), Will Porteous (3), Jason Brown (3), Jack Altman (2), Harry Stebbings (2), Chris O'Neill (1)
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2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2017 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
- 20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations
- 20VC: Why Move Fast and Break Things Is Not Right, How To Instil Radical Candor In Your Organisation & What Founders Must Ask For From Their Investors with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
- 20VC: What Is Core To The Best Investor - Founder Relationships, The Biggest Risk For Founders In The Early Days & Why EQ Is The Most Important Trait For Managers with Jack Altman, Founder & CEO @ Lattice
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Jul 7, 2017 positive
Scott: Managers must enforce direct peer resolution before hearing employee complaints
“Basically the idea is to get very disciplined about, especially if you're a manager, not letting one employee Come and talk to you, complain about another, but rather say, have you talked to so-and-so directly? And if the answer is no, say, well, go talk to th…”
Jul 7, 2017
Scott: Start giving feedback by soliciting feedback about yourself in private
“You know, I think that when you're giving feedback, whether it's up, down, or sideways, the sort of formula is the same, because it's hard to give feedback, and you want to do it in the right way, and I think the best thing to do is to start by soliciting feed…”
Jul 7, 2017 negative
Scott: Trying to be liked at work leads to manipulative insincerity
“It's a disaster. Don't try to be more likable. There's a giant difference between caring personally and wanting to be liked. So it is really important to realize that a key aspect of radical candor is really focusing on the other person and their well-being an…”
Jul 7, 2017
Jul 7, 2017
Scott: Childhood conditioning and emotional suppression hinder open workplace communication
“And so the combination of those two factors of pretending at work that we don't have any emotions, that we're not fully human, and having been trained since we learned to speak, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all, makes radical candor …”
Jul 7, 2017
Scott: Male managers consistently pull punches when giving female employees feedback
“One of them is that if you're a woman working for a male boss, it's highly likely that he's going to pull his punches when giving you feedback versus the men who work for him. Versus your male colleagues. And that's bad for you because feedback is good for you…”
Jul 7, 2017
Scott: Softening critical feedback hurts careers more than obnoxious aggression
“And if you back off your challenge when you're giving feedback, when you're expressing your opinion, You wind up either in ruinous empathy or in manipulative insincerity, and both of those quadrants are going to be worse for your career than being seen as obno…”
Jul 7, 2017 negative
Jul 7, 2017
Scott: Women offering candid feedback are unfairly perceived as obnoxiously aggressive
“And basically the problem is that when you are a woman being radically candid with others, they're more likely to interpret your radical candor as obnoxious aggression than the same radical candor coming from a man.”
Jul 7, 2017
Scott: Stubborn colleagues require extreme language, sensitive ones need personal care
“Sometimes you're going to be working with somebody who's a little stubborn, maybe a little cocky, and you're going to have to use some extreme, extreme language to get through to them. And other times you're going to be working with somebody who's extremely se…”
Jul 7, 2017 positive
Scott: Early-career workers should project more confidence than they actually feel
“I think what you can do is come in with a good deal more confidence than you feel. I think that is almost always a good idea because especially when you're early in your career, It's probably not such a good idea later in your career, but early in your career,…”