How to Handle Work-Related Stress: The Three-Legs Strategy

How to Handle Work-Related Stress

It’s still an open question when I was more stressed – now, while running a relatively small machine learning startup with just 10 techies and over 30 international sales partners, or in the past – when I was holding a senior management position and leading a research and innovation group at the largest entertainment company…

Why I always Leave Tips at a Restaurant

Why I Always Leave Tips at a Restaurant

Managing a restaurant is very similar to managing a startup. For those who are at the beginning of their entrepreneurial journey, I’d suggest testing your own endurance one day by helping out in a small/medium-size restaurant or a bar. Let’s say for a week, to see and feel how it’s like. To me, it’s about…

To hire or not to hire

To Hire or Not to Hire

How many hours can you afford to spend on a single candidate while deciding to hire or not to hire? It’s no secret that job interviews are time consuming for all parties involved. Yet, I’m happy to share a few trade secrets when it comes to hiring. In our case, we are still a small…

What's It Like to Be a Female CEO?

What’s It Like to Be a Female CEO?

I get asked a lot, “What’s it like to be a female CEO?” The answer is not easy: I don’t have much to compare, I’ve never been a male CEO! During my corporate research job I was very driven to bring as many female colleagues as possible into the corporate research field. I asserted that…

Going the Distance

Ever since childhood and throughout my life, I have been told many times that I was a late bloomer and that I could do better with my performance in whatever it was I was lacking. This can of course be rather disheartening, if not depressing. The “Sasha complaints” later continued to a variety of people,…