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Kim Scott

Disciplines:
google
writing
management
apple

Summary

American management author and former tech executive — formerly at Google and Apple — author of Radical Candor — who created the most widely used management feedback framework in Silicon Valley.

Core Contribution

Creates the Radical Candor framework — Scott's 2x2 matrix (Care Personally × Challenge Directly) provides the most practical vocabulary for management feedback; its quadrants (Radical Candor, Ruinous Empathy, Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity) are now standard management education vocabulary.

Notable Works & Achievements

Radical Candor

Just Work

Historical Influences

Sheryl Sandberg Steve Jobs Andy Grove

Intellectual Lineage

Princeton Harvard Business School Google Apple UniversityRadical Candor

Contemporaries & Peers

Liz WisemanBen Horowitz

Minds Influenced

Management training

Intellectual Posterity

Radical Candor Radical Candor 2x2Ruinous Empathy

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