Hi, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor, and I am so excited to share today's episode with you.

It's an interview with New York Times bestselling author Kim Scott.

You may know her from her work on Radical Cander, and today we'll talk all about her new book,

Just Work, Get Stuff Done, Fast and Fair, though she uses a different

S word in her actual title. Drawing inspiration from literature, philosophy, behavioral

economics, and cutting-edge organizational research, Kim Scott provides a framework that helps

us identify the different attitudes and behaviors that combine to create

unproductive working environments.

Here we go.

Kim, it is a tremendous honor and a pleasure to have you on the show today.

For listeners, I'm actually speaking to Kim on launch day of her new book, Just Work.

So I will confess, as a fan and as a student of your work around

radical candor, I was a little bit surprised at first glance when I saw the subject matter

of your new book, Just Work, which focuses, and I'll let you talk more about it, but it focuses

on creating just and effective work environments, right? But I will say that by the time I finished reading

your introduction to the book, which I found extremely personal and vulnerable, the link

between those bold, courageous conversations and the emotional safety of the workplace became

extremely clear. And I absolutely devoured your book. So I would love to start with that

vulnerability that I mentioned. And I would love for you to talk a little bit about what drove you,

not only to write this tremendous book, but to be so reflective and frankly so accountable

in telling some of your stories. Well, Rachel, thank you so much. It's a great honor to be here.

So when you write a book about feedback, as Radical Candor was, you're going to get a lot of it.

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