It is a very exciting time for you. You made the plunge and have started your own company. You have pulled away from the crowd and decided to focus on something of your own. In itself it is a very difficult and brave decision, make sure to be proud of that. However,...

Chaos… Racing thoughts… Rapid Heart Beat… Overwhelming anxiety… These are all the feelings that come up when we are faced with rapidly changing conditions, when crisis is upon us, when we are called to action. Toning down the drama, the feelings are real whether we...

During the first couple of months after starting a company you are bound to run into the issue of resource constraint. The new work will just keep arriving and the old work will not be started yet. The new tasks accumulate and create anxiety. All of the promises that...

Working in Large Corporation vs Start-Up Topic of company stage and scale comes up in many of my conversations. “This company was so dull” and “This company was so disorganized, they never had resources and did not know what they were doing”. Sounds familiar? We all...

How to stop building and start listening? As engineers and engineering managers our minds are wired to build. Give us a problem statement and we will get on solving it. This force is tremendous and makes us very successful at what we do. However, while building or...

How to improve your hiring fits? As managers we are responsible for hiring the best people for our team. We spent hours sifting through resumes, interviewing and training candidates. However, despite our best efforts, the hires don’t always work out and we are stuck...