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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Are you struggling with start-up life? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Dave Balter, an entrepreneur, CEO, and author. They talk through what to do when you’re burning out due to a frenzied workload, a key hire is hurting your start-up’s culture, or you want more pay because of your fast-growing responsibilities.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research, talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.8	Today we're answering questions from workers at startups with Dave Balter.
0:36.9	He's a startup founder and investor
0:38.7	and the author of the new book, The Humility Imperative, Effective Leadership in an Era of Arrogance.
0:44.9	Dave, thanks for coming in the show. Thanks for having me. So Dave, how are workplace dilemmas different at
0:49.9	startups? I think one of the first things is startups are amoeba-like in many ways and are in constant
0:56.8	state of searching for who they are and what they're going to be. And so if you like living in that
1:02.8	unknown, it can be really fun to take whatever dilemma is coming at you and use that as the
1:07.9	format for maybe building the next policy for the organization.
1:11.7	We get a fair number of letters where the person really isn't cut out to be at a startup.
1:18.1	I'm surprised how often this dilemma comes up.
1:20.7	Yeah, this happens a lot.
1:22.2	So there's this idea that, you know, startup life, it's the ultimate thing to challenge yourself.
1:28.8	And it's the way to make untold riches if your company, you know, becomes a unicorn or all that
1:33.4	sort of stuff. And so you do get many career-oriented individuals who have built a great, you know,
1:40.9	journey through large organizations who say, one day I'm going to be in a startup. It's such a
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