Why is it important for bosses to understand their employee’s goals to build an effective team?

Kim Scott (Author & Co-Founder, Candor Inc)


Kim Scott offers her theory of team building including the need to understand what motivates your employees and what they want to achieve in their career. She talks about how if managers really know what motivates their staff members then that knowledge can be utilized to establish trust. Scott explains that effective managers can start to place employees in jobs and roles that will facilitate their progress toward their goals with the end result of having a highly motivated and functioning team.

Kim Scott

Author & Co-Founder, Candor Inc Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without Losing Your Humanity. She earned her stripes as a highly successful leader at Google and then decamped to Apple, where she designed and taught a class on optimal management. She has earned growing fame in recent years with her vital new approach to effective management, the “Radical Candor” method, which has been the subject of articles in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The New York Times, and Inc.

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Kim Scott

Author & Co-Founder, Candor Inc

Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without Losing Your Humanity. She earned her stripes as a highly successful leader at Google and then decamped to Apple, where she designed and taught a class on optimal management. She has earned growing fame in recent years with her vital new approach to effective management, the “Radical Candor” method, which has been the subject of articles in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The New York Times, and Inc.

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Vaishali Jain

Vaishali Jain

Sarder TV Anchor & Former Bloomberg TV Journalist

Vaishali has been working in the media industry & Journalism for more than 14 years. She had her own CEO talk show on Bloomberg TV India called Biz Lounge, a show that she anchored and produced. Biz Lounge explored the business aspects of each company, as well as the company's leadership, corporate culture, as well as each leader's personal side including how he/she spent their free time.

Prior to that, she worked as a Management Consultant in the finance industry in New York City. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Management with a concentration in Finance and her Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology.

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