team building

Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset

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“Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.” 
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success
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Radical Candor: Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly

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Image result for Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring it’s obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging it’s ruinous empathy. When you do neither it’s manipulative insincerity.

Radical Candor is a simple idea:

To be a good leader, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. 
When you challenge without caring it’s obnoxious aggression;
When you care without challenging it’s ruinous empathy.
When you do neither it’s manipulative insincerity.

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by [Scott, Kim]
(Book Recommended by Fanny L-W)