What Kim Scott thinks about innovation
Author of Radical Candor (2017) and Radical Respect (2024); earlier a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics and Twitter, on the faculty of Apple University, and leader of the AdSense, YouTube and DoubleClick teams at Google.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Kim Scott has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI’ve said it before, but it’s worth saying again: Emotional dysregulation, bullying and bloviating are not leadership attributes. People who cannot manage themselves should not manage others. But as we all know, there are many people in positions of power who abuse it, despite there being a growing consensus that coercion, even by otherwise visionary leaders, neither gets the best results out of people nor generates the innovation necessary to thrive in the modern economy.
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