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Sarah Lamaison, co-founder and CEO of Dioxycle, offers advice for people who are just finishing their academic studies and entering a climate tech startup: Don’t assume academic knowledge is all you need, don’t care too much about your title, and overdeliver before negotiating a salary.
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Sarah Lamaison, co-founder and CEO of Dioxycle, offers advice for people who are just finishing their academic studies and entering a climate tech startup: Don’t assume academic knowledge is all you need, don’t care too much about your title, and overdeliver before negotiating a salary.
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![Smart Leaders Understand Friction [Entire Talk] [Explicit]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z4lu3tf7_Oo/mqdefault.jpg "Smart Leaders Understand Friction [Entire Talk] [Explicit]
Robert I. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and professor emeritus of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford School of Engineering. Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science, the Sociological Research Association, and the Academy of Management. In this conversation with Stanford lecturers Ravi Belani and Emily Ma, Sutton and Rao discuss their new book, “The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder,” and offer advice and insights from their years of research and observation.
(EDS NOTE: THIS TALK INCLUDES EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.)
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