Career progression for middle managers | Nikesh Jain | Global CXO Series | TGV Episode #163

<p>If you are a middle manager and felt stuck in your current position for a long time? This episode is a MUST TUNE FOR YOU!</p> <p>In this episode, Nikesh has shared a lot of tips from both employee and employer perspective on crafting a career path for middle level management.</p> <ul><li>A good number of careers get stuck in middle management because of the comfort of solving low-quality problems efficiently.</li> <li>Middle manager who lose touch with technology are prone to become obsolete</li> <li>Organizations should create career progression path for technical roles too</li> <li>Pyramid structure of organizations forces them to have limited number of leaders at the top</li> <li>Captive organizations have less number of leadership roles offshore vs onshore</li> <li>People with strong technical knowledge coupled with business acumen will have a long lasting career</li> <li>Nikesh’s Witty answers to rapid-fire questions</li> <li>1 piece of advice to those aspiring to make BIG in their careers and LIVES</li> <li>Trivia about Social media platforms!</li> </ul> <p>ABOUT Nikesh Jain (in his words):</p> <p>- 24 years of experience in developing complex software platforms, and building top notch engineering teams at highly successful startups and world class software companies.</p> <p>- Worked as Vice President/Head of Engineering - India at Apttus a quote to cash start up.</p> <p>- Worked at Icertis a Seattle/Pune based start-up as VP Engineering and managed Icertis products on MS Azure cloud.</p> <p> </p> <p>- Worked at Ariba ( An SAP Company ) as Director of Engineering and managed engineering development for upstream (Sourcing, CLM, Spend Analysis) and downstream (Procure to Pay, Catalog) products on Ariba commerce cloud.</p> <p>- Worked at Yahoo! as part of their cloud platform group. Owned and managed Y!Geo and Video transcoding platform.</p> <p>What gives me kick - To make a difference (with huge impact) to the society in the area of education or healthcare or just anything which would mak