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I don’t know a person on the planet who has never felt disrespected, who’s never been excluded for something, who’s never felt like somebody was being unfair in the assumptions they were making about them. So what can you do to prevent that from happening on your team? Radical respect is about how to create an organization in which everyone respects each other. And this can be confusing because respect has two very different definitions. One definition is respecting someone’s achievements.
That’s something you have to earn. The second definition is about the kind of unconditional regard that we owe each other for who we really are as human beings. That is not something anyone has to earn. That is kind of a birthright. Sometimes when people talk about radical respect, they sort of dismiss it as like a soft skill, being oversensitive.
But if you believe that your team has got to collaborate in order to get great results, you’ve got to focus on radical respect.
Hi. I’m Kim Scott. I am the author of “Radical Respect, How to Work Together Better,” and “Radical Candor, Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.” Before writing these books, I was an executive at Google and Apple. And before that, I did three failed startups.