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date: 2025-02-18
title: Radical Candor - Effective Leadership Communication
link: https://www.radicalcandor.com/our-approach/
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Radical Candor is Caring Personally while Challenging Directly. At its core it is guidance and feedback that is both kind and clear whilst specific and sincere.

![Radical Candor two by two image](/images/radical-candor.png)

What it is not...

## Obnoxious Aggression

This is 'brutal honesty' - challenging but not caring

## Ruinous Empathy

This is what happens when you want to spare someone’s short-term feelings, so you don’t tell them something they need to know. You Care Personally, but fail to Challenge Directly.

## Manipulative Insincerity

This is backstabbing, political or passive-aggressive behaviour. It is what happens when you neither Care Personally nor Challenge Directly and being 'Two faced'. Should you be a leader if you genuinely feel like this?