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Radical Candor: Communication at Work

Ready to love your job, crush your career goals, and become the kind of leader everyone actually wants to work with? Welcome to the Radical Candor podcast, where you'll learn how to kick ass at work without losing your humanity. Host Amy Sandler and Radical Candor co-founders Kim Scott and Jason Rosoff to break down how you can Care Personally and Challenge Directly — the deceptively simple but powerful formula for b

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AI Isn’t Passing You By - How to Catch Up (with Jeremy Utley)
Nov 2026 · 4 books
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The Human Advantage
Jeremy Utley
“Jeremy Utley, who wrote A wonderful book called The Human Advantage”
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The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
Sherry Turkle
“Sherry Turkle. So she has this new book, Artificial Intimacy”
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When They Win You Win
Russ Laraway
“Russ Laraway wrote this great book, When They Win You Win”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“Podcast is based on the book, Radical Candor. Be a kick-ass boss without losing your community. By Kim Scott”
Manipulation vs. Persuasion: A Clear Distinction (with Jay Conger)
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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Winning 'Em Over: A New Model for Management in the Age of Persuasion
Jay A. Conger
“Uh and he is an an incredible author of the book The Persuasive Leader”
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Leading Change
John Kotter
“John Cotter at Harvard, uh talked about this in his leading change. books that he wrote”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“This podcast is based on the book, Radical Candor. Be a kick-ass boss without losing your humanity. By Kim Scott”
How can you confront a bullying boss without losing your job? (with Christina Wing)
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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Unspeakable
Christina Wing
“I Kim Scott, and here talking to the authors of books I love, and today I'm thrilled to be with Christina Wing who wrote unspeakable”
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Radical Candor
Kim Scott
“When I talk about ruinous empathy in the book Radical Candor I often talk about tell people who aren't doing a good job”
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The Fearless Organization
Amy Edmondson
“my hope is for People to read. Radical candor. to read Amy Edmondson's book. many books around psycho psychological safety”
How Microaggressions can have significant negative impacts (with Dr. Kecia Thomas )
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better
Kim Scott
“In radical respect I I wrote about bias, prejudice, and bullying”
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together at the Cafeteria Table?
Beverly Tatum
“Beverly Tatum has that book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together at the Cafeteria Table”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“Podcast is based on the book Radical Candor. a kick ass boss without losing your humanity. By Kim Scott”
Fixing the Employee Experience (with Tiffani Bova)
Sep 2026 · 3 books
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The Experience Mindset: A Bold New Approach to Treating Customers and Employees as One
Tiffani Bova
“And I'm thrilled to have today Tiffany Bova, author of the Experience Mindset”
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Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business
Tiffani Bova
“So my my my first book, Growth IQ, was the sort of like a culmination of my practitioner operational experience”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“This podcast is based on the book Radical Candor: Be a Kick-ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott”
The Science Behind High-Performing Teams (with Ron Friedman)
Sep 2026 · 4 books
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Decoding Greatness
Ron Friedman
“He is the best-selling author of the best. place to work and decoding greatness”
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Super Teams: The Science and Secrets of High Performing Teams
Ron Friedman
“His new book, Super Teams, The Science and Secrets of High Performing Teams, reveals what the very best teams do differently”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“I always describe when I was writing Radical Candor, I said the second hardest part of radical candor was getting inside my own head”
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The Best Place to Work
Ron Friedman
“to my first book, that was the best place to work”
Ways to Manage - Back by Brain Science (with Caroline Webb)
Sep 2026 · 3 books
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Leadership Intelligence
Caroline Webb
“Caroline is the author of Leadership Intelligence and How to Have a Great Day”
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How to Have a Great Day
Caroline Webb
“Caroline is the author of Leadership Intelligence and How to Have a Great Day”
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Radical Candor
Kim Scott
“even though I wrote a whole book R radical candor on giving feedback”
Get Situated for Success (with Angela Duckworth)
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee
“called The Some of Us by Heather McGee about how It's a it's a g it's a wonderful book”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“Podcast is based on the book Radical Cander. be a kick ass boss without losing your humanity. By Kim Scott”
Revolutionizing Meetings: From Sabotage to Strategy (with Rebecca Hinds)
Aug 2026 · 3 books
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Your Best Meeting Ever
Rebecca Haines
“Rebecca Hines is the author of Your Best Meeting Ever”
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual
Office of Strategic Services
“I start the book with the story of what's called the simple sabotage field manual”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“This podcast is based on the book Radical Candor. Be a kick-ass boss without losing your humanity. By Kim Scott”
Why some leaders are incorruptible, many get corrupted by power/money (with Rob Lalka)
Aug 2026 · 6 books
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Venture Alchemist
Rob Lalka
“Rob Lalka is the author of Venture Alchemist and also a Professor at Tulane”
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God and Man at Yale
William F. Buckley Jr.
“Especially to heal Really admired Buckley in his book”
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The Diversity Myth
David Sacks and Peter Thiel
“so they wrote a book called The Diversity Myth”
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Incorruptible
Eric Ries
“And Eric Reese's new book, Incorruptible, offers a lot of suggestions about how if you want to start a company you can still be an entrepreneur”
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Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most
Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
“And the book is called Life Worth Living”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“This podcast is based on the book Radical Cander. be a kick ass boss without losing your humanity. By Kim Scott”
Liz Wiseman - Great Leaders Make Everyone Better
Jul 2026 · 5 books
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Impact Players
Liz Wiseman
“Uh, including impact players. That's that's your most recent one”
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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Liz Wiseman
“multipliers. is probably your most famous one”
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Rookie Smarts
Liz Wiseman
“and your beloved middle child is Rookie smart. Rookie smarts”
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The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber
“one of my favorite books of all time is called The Dawn of Everything. And”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“Podcast is based on the book Radical Candor. Be a kick-ass boss without losing your humanity by Kim Scott”
Dr. Becky Kennedy - Good Inside
Jul 2026 · 2 books
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Good Inside
Becky Kennedy
“Welcome. Doctor Kennedy. Doctor Beckett. Thank you, Kim. So happy to be here. Thrilled, thrilled to have you. I I wanna I think there's so much overlap actually between our work. Radical can are is about caring personally and challenging directly at the same time. And I really feel like Good Inside is kind of about the same thing”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“The Radical Canner Podcast is based on the book Radical Cander via Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott”
Heather McGhee - The Sum of Us
Jun 2026 · 4 books
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Radical Respect
Kim Scott
“a huge influence on me as I was writing Radical Respect”
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee
“I wrote about it in the Some of Us”
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
“a chapter for a book called Four Hundred Souls, which takes a five-year look at every year of uh the presence of Africans in the United States from sixteen nineteen on”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“The Radical Canner Podcast is based on the book Radical Cander The A Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott”
Oliver Bullough - Everybody Loves Our Dollars
Jun 2026 · 6 books
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Moneyland
Oliver Bullough
“I'm Kim Scott here with The Radical Sabbatical. Today I'm talking to Oliver Bullo, who wrote two books that I uh have read and loved, Moneyland and Butler to the World”
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Butler to the World
Oliver Bullo
“Moneyland and Butler to the World, and he's got a new one coming out, Everybody Loves Our Dollars”
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Everybody Loves Our Dollars
Oliver Bullough
“he's got a new one coming out, Everybody Loves Our Dollars”
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
“I the heart of darkness comes to mind. There's that that, you know, the scene where the narrator tells the Kurtz's fiancee that he's died”
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Revolt of the Rich
David Gellis
“David Gellis a f a few weeks ago who wrote a book called Revolt of the Rich”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“The Radical Candor Podcast is based on the book Radical Candor: The A Kick-ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott”
Gary Gerstle on The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
May 2026 · 6 books
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
Gary Gerstle
“Welcome, Gary Garstel, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
“It's the 250th anniversary called called The Wealth of Nations, same year as the Declaration of Independence”
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The Infernal Machine
Stephen Judge
“I just read the book The Infernal Machine by Stephen Judge”
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The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order
Gary Gerstle
“a co-author of a book that we wrote in 1989, a long time ago, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order”
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The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade
Joseph Stiglitz
“when he writes his book on the 1990s called The Roaring 90s, He doesn't understand what happened to him”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“The Radical Candor podcast is based on the book Radical Candor: The A Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Ken Scott”
Steven Johnson - The Infernal Machine
May 2026 · 5 books
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The Infernal Machine
Stephen Judge
“With me today is Stephen Johnson, who is the author of an incredible book that I have read. twice. I'll show it to you. It's on my Libro FM, The Infernal Machine”
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Radical Candor
Kim Scott
“it's relevant uh you know, tying it in a radical candor, it's so relevant to the kind of bottoms-up management that that I believe in”
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Enemy of All Mankind
Steven Johnson
“the last one in this genre is a book called the um Enemy of All Mankind about pirates”
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
“I tried to reread The Wealth of Nations. It was so boring I couldn't get through it”
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Steven Johnson
“a book I wrote a million my second book, this book called Emergence about self-organizing systems and bottom-up systems. It was it was called The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software”
Luke Burgis - The One and the Ninety Nine
May 2026 · 4 books
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The One and the 99
Luke Burgess
“And recently I read The one and the 99 by Luke Burgess and we are lucky to be in conversation here today”
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Luke Burgis
“I wrote my first book called Wanting, which is about mimetic desire”
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Eric Hoffer
“Eric Hoffer wrote a great book in the 1950s called The True Believer”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“The Radical Candor podcast is based on the book Radical Candor, The A Kick-ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott”
Daniel Coyle - Creating Teams that Flourish
May 2026 · 3 books
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The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
“Daniel Coyle, who is uh known probably to all of you as the author of The Culture Code”
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis
“before uh Cleveland Guardians, formerly the Indians are it's actually where Moneyball originated”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“The Radical Candor podcast is based on the book Radical Candor: The A Kick-ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott”
How Great Companies Stay Great (with Eric Ries)
Apr 2026 · 8 books
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The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
“Eric is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup, The Leader's Guide”
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The Leader's Guide
Eric Ries
“Eric is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup, The Leader's Guide”
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Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great
Eric Ries
“It's called Incorruptible. why good companies go bad and how great companies stay great”
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No More Tears
unknown
“And yet, if you read No More Tears, that book, like He he was he was flawed profoundly”
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All Systems Red
Martha Wells
“like um, um The Murderbot Diaries, if you've read, if you've read All System Thread”
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
“Matt Dinneman has a series of books that start with Dungeon Crawler Carl”
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Radicalized
Cory Doctorow
“you can also try Radicalized by Quarry Doctorate”
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
“The Radical Canner podcast is based on the book Radical Candor: The A Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott”
What is a Problem I Can Help Solve? (with Tom Rath)
Apr 2026 · 6 books
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What's the Point?
Tom Rath
“uh who wrote a book which is here on my desk called What's the point”
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Radical Candor
Kim Scott
“I thought I was writing it purely for myself. because I love to write. And as it turned out, it did get published and it helped other people. And that is what really gave it meaning”
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How Full Is Your Bucket?
Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton
“our first book called Howful is Your Bucket that really caught on”
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
“Susan Kane, who's a friend of mine, had in her book Quiet”
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StrengthsFinder
Tom Rath
“I was the IT project manager on Strengthsfinder and that was our project to kind of take all these interviews and put them on the internet”
Cover of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Luke Burgis
“I don't know if you read Luke Luke Burgess's book, Wanting”
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