Radical respect:
How to work together better
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How we can recognize, attack, and eliminate workplace injustice―and transform our careers and organizations in the process?
We―all of us―consistently exclude, underestimate, and underutilize huge numbers of people in the workforce even as we include, overestimate, and promote others, often beyond their level of competence. Not only is this immoral and unjust, it’s bad for business. Radical Respect is the solution.
Radical Respect is Kim Scott’s new book, revealing a practical framework for both respecting everyone’s individuality and collaborating effectively. This is the essential guide leaders and their employees need to create more just workplaces and establish new norms of collaboration and respect.
“Kim Scott does it again! There are so many books about loving your work but so few about how to love the people you work with. This beautifully written, wise and practical guide shows us how both are possible. Radical Respect is for anyone who has wondered whether it is possible to create a workplace that supports both belonging and individuality.”
Angela Duckworth
New York Times bestselling author of Grit and the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor, University of Pennsylvania
“Radical Respect left me optimistic that we can create just workplaces. Kim Scott carefully explains how bias, prejudice and bullying undermine all organizations—even those with the best of intentions―and provides an actionable system for countering each. Her acknowledgment that none of us―herself included―are free of this behavior marks an important starting point for a difficult but necessary conversation.”
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
Alphonse Fletcher University professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University
“Many books describe how to create a better workplace. What makes Radical Respect exceptionally interesting and valuable is that Kim Scott vividly describes specific situations: experiences she went through herself or saw happen to people around her; actions she did―or didn’t―take, both as an employee and as a boss; and conversations she regrets having or not having. From lessons she learned the hard way, Kim Scott presents a practical framework for how to make work more just.”
GRETCHEN RUBIN
New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project
“It's about time someone tackled this thorny subject. Bravo! Many workplaces get tangled up or ignore the issues when dealing with bias and difference. Thank goodness for Kim Scott and her dose of candor, offering us not just the words, but the courage and compassion required to deal with conflicting points of view. Just Work holds our hands, kicks our butts and shows us how.”
BETH COMSTOCK
Author, Imagine It Forward, and former vice chair, GE
“If you've been wringing your hands or hiding your head in the sand about the issues of injustice in your workplace (yes, yours!), this is the book to read. You will learn how to recognize and eradicate the bias, bad behavior and discrimination that is holding back your team and company from succeeding at the highest levels possible.”
SARAH KUNST
Managing Director, Cleo Capital
“Packed with stories from Scott’s career, Just Work offers a solutions-focused perspective on #metoo, acknowledging that gender injustice doesn’t exist in a vacuum and broadening the frame to consider diversity and inclusion writ large. Each of us has an important role in creating a fair and reasonable workplace. When we play that role and create the conditions for others to do the same, we can create real change today in the place where most of us spend most of our time—at work.”
DARREN WALKER
President, Ford Foundation
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Read it, share it, live it. The idea of caring personally while challenging directly isn’t just a way of working better, it’s a way of living better.
Kim and Jason Rosoff founded Radical Candor, LLC to help people have better relationships at work and do the best work of their lives. An executive education company based on Kim’s best-selling book, Radical Candor is a team of passionate professionals helping people cultivate more caring and candid relationships at work. Radical Candor offers virtual and in-person keynotes, workshops as well as digital learning courses.