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:
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.
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