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What's one thing that we don't know about Radical Candor?

Research and come up with 1 thing that was not mentioned in the article, that you think is worth sharing with the team.

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Stefy
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Algo que no se mencionó en el artículo ni en el video, es lo que está detrás de radical candor. Como equipo, ¿deberíamos tener claros ciertos valores, principios o prácticas antes de practicar Radical Candor? Y si sí, ¿cuáles son?

Ray Dalio es el fundador de Bridgewater Associates, el hedge fund más grande del mundo. Lo que empezó a hacer en su empresa fue practicar "radical transparency" – a management theory that calls for total honesty and accountability. Lo que me parece curioso es que Dalio escribió un manifesto de 110 páginas sobre la filosofía detrás de la vida y el trabajo. Algo así como un handbook para poner en práctica esto de radical transparency (que se resumen más o menos bien aquí). 

Empathy and kindness aren’t a top priority there. The firm’s culture of absolute candor is designed to strip out emotional considerations and emphasize cold, vulcan logic in all decision-making—the thin-skinned need not apply. 

Former Bridgewater employee

La pregunta que me queda entonces es, ¿cuáles son los principios inamovibles en nuestro equipo? En el video mencionan varias veces la importancia de trust (y también en estos comentarios de Y Combinator News), pero qué mas se necesita para ser radically candid, sin ofender a los demás? ¿Serán reglas? ¿Principios? ¿Best practices? 
Isabel
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One thing  that I found very interesting about Radical Candor that was not mentioned in the article was that it's not a bosses job to tell you what to do. I think that when you're giving feedback it's sometimes easy to fall into telling people what you would like them to do. 

I found this great description on Kim scott's website:

Telling people what to do doesn’t work. This also seems obvious. Yet, too many people think a boss’s job is to tell people what to do. It’s not. To do great work, employees must feel free. There’s nothing more destructive to great work than authoritarianism. Great bosses help a team move in a unified direction not by telling them what to do, but by guiding them through a process that involves a lot of listening, arguing, cajoling, and then letting go of ego to learn from the outcomes of those decisions. This process is exhausting for everybody, and so there’s pressure on the boss to short circuit it and tell people what to do. Resisting that pressure and forcing themselves and their teams through the process, called “the thrash” at Apple and “getting mugged by pigeons” at Google, is key to getting the best work from employees. Great bosses are editors, not authors.
http://www.kimmalonescott.com/


Me queda la pregunta de what exactly this process  of Thrashing o Getting mugged by pigeons looks like and how we can apply it. 



Alejo
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Que cuando uno es honesto, es fácil cometer un error y que se te vaya la mano en ser muy duro en como dices las cosas. Y por esto, para practicar Radical Candor, es importante tener un espacio donde cometer errores está bien, y donde es fácil point out esos errores.

También que es importante mostrarle a la persona que te importa y hacerles saber que sí tienes confianza en sus habilidades. Pero de una forma que deje claro que el error que ellos cometieron fue un error, o que el trabajo estuvo mal hecho.

Source:
En un comment en Hacker News, Kim Scott, la autora de Radical Candor, escribió esto:

I think that the key is to make it safe to make mistakes...this also makes it safe to point them out...

This may be sematics, but in my experience, the bona fide assholes don't point out mistakes because they care about helping the person who made the mistake to improve. And so when an asshole sees they've made a person suffer, they don't care, and don't take the time to reassure the person that they have confidence in their abilities. When a person is being radically candid and they see the person is suffering, they take the time to show they care and to reassure that person they have confidence in their abilities--but it a way that makes it clear the mistake was a mistake, or that their work isn't good enough...