Radical Candor: Chapter 2; Get, Give and Encourage Guidance
Chapter 2: Get, Give and Encourage Guidance. There are two dimensions to good guidance; 1. Care personally ( Ruinous Empathy is what happens when you fail to care personally .) 2. Challenge directly ( Obnoxious Aggression, or manipulative Insincerity is what happens when you fail to challenge directly .) These two dimensions could take effect through different ways or methods of giving guidance; 1. Radical Candor: I don't have to spend a lot of time getting to know a person or building trust before offering radically candid guidance. A great way to get to know somebody and to build trust is to offer radically candid praise and criticism. - Radically candid praise: " I admire that about you " - Radically candid criticism: " To keep winning, criticize the wins " 2. Obnoxious Aggression: When you criticize someone without taking even two seconds to show you care, your guidance feels obnoxiously aggressive to the recipient. " If you can't be radically