I had my first guest, Ashish Wattal, in Episode 6 on October 11, 2021. He was then MD at Cisco.
Fast forward exactly 18 months: April 10, 2023.
He returns after exactly 50 episodes as Country Director at Google Cloud to kick-off Season 12!
We discuss in detail around the traits that make him a great leader of multiple high-performing teams:
- Empathy & Compassion
- Criticality of Trust in getting results from the team
- Why communication is the key in achieving aspirational goals & how to go about achieving them
- Team-first mentality
- Individualism within the team
- Importance of Diversity in the team (Not just gender, but also in age)
- How failures set you up for success
- WFH or hybrid
- Importance of discipline & how sports inculcates leadership
- Importance of 'Orzuv' (Wellness in the Kashmiri language)
- How IT & tech has transformed in the past 35 years
- Where he expects India to be going in the next 10-15
- What advice he would give the 20-year old him
I couldn't have expected a more from-the-heart leadership mantras in under 26 minutes!
Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/zD6NIO1vTxU?t=0.05
