Coaching practices for How to Recommend Radical Product Change to an Organization
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- We keep piling new initiatives on top of old ones we’ve outgrown but never stopped, so the team is overloaded and there’s no room to start anything fresh
- We keep rolling out new processes and reorgs to fix this thing and nothing moves the needle
- I have to open a hard conversation or a proposal and I never know how to set it up
- I treat feedback like one dial running from gentle to harsh, so every time I want to be kinder I water down the truth, and every time I want to be honest I come off cold
- Nobody on my team will say what they really think
Practices that may help
- Radical Candor, Made Practical
Kim Scott’s radical candor is the combination of two things at once: caring personally about the person and challenging them directly. Drop the caring and you get obnoxious aggression; drop the challenge and you get ruinous empathy or manipulative insincerity. It’s a practitioner framework from her time at Google and Apple, not a tested protocol, though it rhymes with research on candor and trust. - Use Start-Stop-Keep reviews to drive continuous improvement
Regularly ask what the team should start, stop, and keep doing — and act on the answers.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus - Diagnose the challenge before choosing the response
Ask whether the problem requires new expertise (technical) or new values and behavior (adaptive).
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - Frame problems with SCQA (Situation–Complication–Question–Answer)
Use the SCQA framework to establish context cleanly before stating your recommendation.
The Minto Pyramid Principle - Place feedback on the 2x2
Two axes — care personally and challenge directly — define four quadrants; only one is radical candor.
Radical Candor, Made Practical - Create safety for experimentation and honest challenge
Make it safe to raise problems, test new ideas, and disagree — before expecting the team to transform.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Use reverse brainstorming to find failure modes
Ask "how would we make this fail?" instead of "how do we make this succeed?"
Red Teaming: Stress-Testing Plans Before They Fail - Give voice to those with uncomfortable perspectives
Actively surface and protect the dissenting or marginal voices the system wants to silence.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - Find the high-leverage intervention point
Look for the structural change that produces large effects for small effort.
Systems Thinking - Challenge assumptions and invite new thinking
Actively encourage your team to question old ways and generate new approaches.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Adaptive Leadership Pushback
Expect displacement, scapegoating, and pressure to return to the old equilibrium — and stay the course.
Hold steady when the system pushes back
- How To Change Teams Focus Without Undermining Bosss Direction
Actively surface and protect the dissenting or marginal voices the system wants to silence.
Give voice to those with uncomfortable perspectives
- Lateral Thinking During A Big Change
Lateral thinking, coined by Edward de Bono, is a set of deliberate techniques for disrupting habitual thought patterns so that a problem can be approached from an unexpected angle. Unlike vertical (logical) thinking, which deepens the current line of reasoning, lateral thinking deliberately abandons it to find a new entry point. Evidence for specific techniques is largely observational and practitioner-reported; the underlying cognitive principle — that breaking pattern-lock enables novel solutions — has support in creativity research.
- When Adaptive Leadership Diagnose Adaptive Vs Technical
Ask whether the problem requires new expertise (technical) or new values and behavior (adaptive).
Diagnose the challenge before choosing the response
- Adaptive Leadership
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
- Adaptive Leadership At Work
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
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