In this episode PM Power colleagues, J Veeraraaghavan (JV) & Sivaguru are in conversation as JV shares his career journey during the mid-career days, when he moved from one leadership role to another including

• Getting the right breaks through his career
• Managing projects, taking up middle managerial roles and moving into executive management
• Getting exposed to and experience in roadmap planning for products
• Curbing the tendency to jump in and act when team members were facing challenges, rather than taking an approach of helping them
• What helped him get over this:
• Emotional intelligence
• Being aware of self and being empathetic and sensing how others feel
• Having a technical background
• In addition, approachability and ability to guide
• On dealing with managers, when he took on larger responsibilities 
• How he overcame the sudden feeling that one had nothing to do, as a manager, while being responsible overall
• His first experience in managing a program and what he learnt from not having prior experience
• What he realized by inadvertently stepping into the shoes of the project manager and realizing the impact it had on the project manager
• His thoughts on luck v/s hard work for a successful manager
• Four dimensions of success for a middle manager – Engineering excellence; Delivery oversight; Self leadership; Coaching skills
• How executive leadership can enable middle managers to go beyond performance reviews
• Establishing communities of practice to help middle managers 
• His take on managing time