Kim Scott
17 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 18, 2023 by Melissa Tan · said 20 times in 7 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2026 4 mentions in 1 episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 13 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
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- How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn)
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Jun 18, 2023
Tan: Kim Scott workshopped Radical Candor at Dropbox before publishing
“Interestingly enough, Kim Scott was at Dropbox for a short period of time. So when I joined Dropbox, she was actually on my interview panel and we overlapped for three months. And she actually workshopped that book with our team before, or before she published…”
Dec 10, 2023 negative
Scott: Withholding critical feedback from underperformers causes top performers to quit
“If I didn't fire Bob, I was gonna lose all my best performers, because not only had it been unfair to Bob not to tell him, I also had been unfair to everyone on the team and they were frustrated. Their deliverables were late because his deliverables were late.…”
Dec 10, 2023
Scott: Relationships don't scale across organizations, but workplace culture does
“No matter how talented you are, relationships don't scale. But she did do those things for her direct reports and the people who she worked most closely with, all, all of us. And when a leader treats their team, the people who they interact with on a day to da…”
Dec 10, 2023 negative
Dec 10, 2023
Scott: Establishing radical candor requires soliciting criticism before giving it
“There's really an order of operations to radical candor, and if you begin with soliciting criticism, then you take the first and most important step to improving your relationship with that person enough that, that it becomes easier for you to give it as well …”
Dec 10, 2023
Scott: Structure direct report career conversations across three 45-minute sessions
“I think one of the really important things that all managers can do for their direct reports to show that they care is to have real meaningful career conversations where you talk about sort of their life story, sort of their past, whatever part of it they're c…”
Dec 10, 2023
Scott: Likability bias makes it harder for women to challenge directly
“The sort of likability competence bias that a lot of women face pushed me, especially early in my career, in the wrong direction on challenge directly, and it made it much harder for me to, because often I would say something, and I would say it even more gent…”
Dec 10, 2023 negative
Dec 10, 2023
Scott: Managers must challenge directly and highlight mistake patterns against defensiveness
“Sometimes it's useful to show someone a pattern. All of the careless mistakes to, especially if someone is, is defense, is defensive, or if you think they're likely to be defensive. If you think they're likely to do to you what I did to my boss, I don't know. …”
Dec 10, 2023 positive
Scott: Reading fiction is the best way for leaders to build compassion
“I believe that the more novels people read, the better, that's the, if people often ask me, like, what can I do to move up on the care personally dimension of radical candor? And read more novels. This is the best way I know of to build compassion for other pe…”
Dec 10, 2023
Scott: Aggressive leaders improve when coached through enlightened self-interest
“Very often the leaders who are low on the care personally dimension, they do care about their results and they do care about their own careers. And so when you sort of explain this to them in terms of enlightened self-interest, they tend to get better at it.”
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Scott: Focusing on caring for others helps leaders overcome people-pleasing
“One of the things that was helpful for me anyway, so you can tell me if it's helpful for you, what was realizing that my job was not to be liked. My job was to care about other people and to get out of my own head and to become others focused is what helped me…”
Dec 10, 2023 negative
Dec 10, 2023 positive
Scott: Immediate two-minute feedback is more important than being on time
“But if you don't, if it's not possible, and often it was not possible for me in my career to sort of schedule my time that way, I just decided that these moments of management were more important than being on time to my next meeting. And so I was just late so…”