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Great piece Christine. There's not enough open conversations in high growth startups about this topic. There's something about helping to manage expectations as part of the hiring process. Thank you!

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100% we absolutely need to have open and transparent conversations from both sides. If things don’t work out, both sides feel the damage.

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Great article, thanks for sharing. I recently became the CEO of a small company and this article certainly resonated with me.

Loved this line:

The ones who are successful doing the above are the ones that never stop working on themselves

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So glad it resonated with you. Congrats on your new role!

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This hits home. I’m coming up on a crossroads of significant growth opportunity (business need, not my “demanding”) and this offered a healthy dose of warning about what comes with the top job. Thanks Christine.

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