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Horrible Bosses, Challenges in Creative Fields | Suryansh Chandra
In this week's episode we have a discussion with Suryansh Chandra - whose journey took him from being an architect at the world famous architecture house: Zaha Hadid, to co-founding a robotics startup Automata that has raised ~$100M to starting Mind Distillery - that helps organizations better feedback processes and performance improvement. Suryansh migrated to London from India in 2007.
We discuss:
- The challenges of working in creative and insular fields like architecture and how that contrasts with working in tech
- What got Suryansh to start a company around improving feedback in organizations and improving performance?
- What are the reasons some managers are douchebags?
- Advice for young managers?
The Svagat Show has deep conversations with Indians (+ South Asians) in Europe who are doing fantastic work in technology or startups.
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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:48 Studying Architecture
3:45 Joining Zaha Hadid
5:36 Architecture studios missing ethos of scale
9:15 Not getting paid, but don't know why
14:14 Cultural diff b/w architectural studio and tech
16:54 Suryansh's journey into building "feedback at scale"
21:49 Immigration status and management style?
23:18 What makes for good and horrible managers?*
27:23 Being secure
29:12 Don't be a douchebag
31:22 Confusing Performance and Feedback*
35:29 How can young managers get good?*
41:25 Be somebody or do something
44:59 Can we be secure in the workplace today?
49:31 Employers perspective
52:11 Hard decisions owing to feedback
57:10 Advice for young managers
#zahahadid #management #feedback #manager #startups #uk #india #hr #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #coaching
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By Rishabh KaulIn this week's episode we have a discussion with Suryansh Chandra - whose journey took him from being an architect at the world famous architecture house: Zaha Hadid, to co-founding a robotics startup Automata that has raised ~$100M to starting Mind Distillery - that helps organizations better feedback processes and performance improvement. Suryansh migrated to London from India in 2007.
We discuss:
- The challenges of working in creative and insular fields like architecture and how that contrasts with working in tech
- What got Suryansh to start a company around improving feedback in organizations and improving performance?
- What are the reasons some managers are douchebags?
- Advice for young managers?
The Svagat Show has deep conversations with Indians (+ South Asians) in Europe who are doing fantastic work in technology or startups.
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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:48 Studying Architecture
3:45 Joining Zaha Hadid
5:36 Architecture studios missing ethos of scale
9:15 Not getting paid, but don't know why
14:14 Cultural diff b/w architectural studio and tech
16:54 Suryansh's journey into building "feedback at scale"
21:49 Immigration status and management style?
23:18 What makes for good and horrible managers?*
27:23 Being secure
29:12 Don't be a douchebag
31:22 Confusing Performance and Feedback*
35:29 How can young managers get good?*
41:25 Be somebody or do something
44:59 Can we be secure in the workplace today?
49:31 Employers perspective
52:11 Hard decisions owing to feedback
57:10 Advice for young managers
#zahahadid #management #feedback #manager #startups #uk #india #hr #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #coaching