# Stuck In a Ruinous Empathy Rut 5 | 11

An episode of [Radical Candor: Communication at Work](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1188489488), 31 May 2023, 59 min.

Audio: https://op3.dev/e/mgln.ai/e/p931447/traffic.megaphone.fm/RC7980823623.mp3?updated=1751596778

The team delves into a mash-up of Ruinous Empathy and Manipulative Insincerity. Ruinous Empathy—being “nice” but ultimately unhelpful and unkind—is rampant among new managers, including this new manager who wrote to us asking for advice about how to break out of a Ruinous Empathy rut. This new boss also veers into Manipulative Insincerity when they become too tired to care or argue anymore. This person dreamed of being a boss and now realizes it’s nothing like they imagined. Kim and Jason role-play how this new manager could approach a Radically Candid conversation with a direct report. View the show notes >> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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