Radical Candor: The surprising secret to being a good boss

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Invite Friends CEO Picks - The most popular editorials that have stood the test of time! Radical Candor: The surprising secret to being a good boss The single most important thing a boss can do, is focus on guidance: giving it, receiving it, and encouraging it. Guidance, which is fundamentally just praise and criticism, is usually called "feedback", but feedback is screechy and makes us want to put our hands over our ears. Guidance is something most of us long for. At First Round's CEO Summit, Kim Scott shared a simple tool for ensuring that your team gets the right kind of guidance - a tool she calls 'radical candor.'

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15 favourite books In this list (and quick summaries) of various books, are some insights that could pivot your thinking about work and life. Here's my favourite part: If true wealth consists in worriless sleeping, clear conscience, reciprocal gratitude, absence of envy, good appetite, muscle strength, physical energy, frequent laughs, no meals alone, no gym class, some physical labor (or hobby), good bowel movements, no meeting rooms, and periodic surprises, then it is largely subtractive (elimination of iatrogenics). Removal is better than addition: Cure illness by finding the cause, not by adding medication. Cure unhappiness by finding the source, not by adding indulgence.