Unmesh Kurup (LG Electronics)

About this Episode

In this episode, Kendall, rachel, and Unmesh talk about:

• The role of luck and timing in one's career path
• Avoiding the dot com bust by staying in grad school
• Changing yourself vs expecting your team to change
• How managing/directing/coaching employees coming from academia is different
• Why turnover can be desirable (SUPER interesting!)
• The downside of having an extremely good manager (also SUPER interesting!)
• Concensus-building as a safety mechanism (thanks, Kendall ;) )
• Being the youngest sibling and how that influenced his path
• Not liking to be told what to do
• Autonomous cars, coming sooner than at least I thought
• How leadership has made Unmesh more decisive in his personal life
• Meeting people via swing dancing

You can find Unmesh on LinkedIn as unmeshkurup :)

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3