I am the third child and youngest sibling. I am seven years younger than my beloved elder sister. When I was nine years old, I remember visiting her room and noticing a paper scrap she had hung on her wall. …

As international Women’s History Month draws to a close, I share my experience with gender biases at work and a less common approach to overcoming them. — I was working at a slightly reduced capacity in a new job while also studying to get my MBA. It was my first true immersion into the American workforce and culture (through my new job and studies). Prior to this position, I worked for an Israeli company headquartered in New…

If this is the first “lessons learned” of mine you land on, I recommend starting with “lessons learned from great leaders parts 1”, and part 2, and Lessons learned from Ineffective leaders. Now, what is there to learn from bad leaders? — a lot, actually. Just as observing and analyzing…

[I’ve shorten this to account for human attention span, more lessons coming] If you missed lessons learned from great leaders parts 1 and 2 — give those a read, I think it’s worth your time (if I do say so myself 😀). Now, Is there anything to learn from bad…

With international women’s history month and the 8th year celebration of the creature who transformed me from a person to a parent (AKA my first born) it’s time to share my struggles with becoming a parent and my tricks for overcoming them. By the time my first child was born…

“When you’re unsure what to do, ask yourself what will yield the most impact for Google and do that” Two weeks into Google, in our first one on one, my manager quickly grounded me on the most important thing at Google: Impact. “Ha” I thought “I don’t recall ever getting…

[Xoogler — how Googlers call an ex-Googler] So as we all heard, 12 days ago Google laid off 7,000 employees across the US. I was among the chosen ones, you can read more about my out of Google experience to see it from my eyes. 12 days have flown by…

In the previous piece: Lessons Learned from Great Leaders — Part 1 Learning from the bestchibban.medium.com I shared 3 great lessons I learned from a great leader, Mark. Here are more lessons I picked up from other great leaders. If you only take one thing away, let is be this: Observe effective leaders and your favorite managers and analyze what are the…

If you only take one thing from this article, may it be this: Observe your best leaders, analyze their actions, and mimic. — - I’ve been given the opportunity to lead at the very young age of 19. See, I was born and raised in Israel, where everyone must enlist…