I’ve read 3/4 of Radical Candor a few months back and it’s fucking bullshit. It reads like a big boring sales pitch for her business consulting gig, while reminding you that your employees are people that deserve empathy. I can’t believe people in Silicon Valley need a graph with quadrants for them to visualize when they’re being assholes (top left) or pushovers (bottom right).
The thing that really bugged me about Radical Candor is it reads like a manual for animal husbandry, not human resources. "be sure to change the straw in the stables at least once a week" rather than "the person in front of you who isn't meeting your expectations is, after all, a person and maybe you should find common ground rather than feigning common ground." The sociopathy is London fog thick.