Mahesh Guruswamy, a seasoned product development executive who has been in the software development space for over twenty years and has managed teams of varying sizes for over a decade joins Enterprise Radio. Mahesh is the author of How to Deliver Bad News and Get Away with It: A Manager’s Guide.
This episode of Enterprise Radio is in association with the Author Channel.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Mahesh Guruswamy discuss the following:
- As a manager you need to deliver bad news when problems occur. How can you tell if you have what it takes to be a manager?
- How do you spot problematic situations and decide when and how to intervene?
- Why is it important to tailor bad news to different groups, such as stakeholders, your team, individuals on your team, your boss, clients, and so on?
- How does one go about tailoring the tone and temperature their delivery to match the situation?
- How can managers help resolve personal conflicts at work?
- Why do you say that the written word is better at addressing bad news than the spoken word?
- When all else fails, how can you let someone go with kindness?
- If you are the one who receives bad news, what is the best way to react?
Mahesh Guruswamy is a seasoned product development executive who has been in the software development space for over twenty years and has managed teams of varying sizes for over a decade. He is currently the chief product and technology officer at Kickstarter.
Before that, he ran product development teams at Mosaic, Kajabi, and Smartsheet. Mahesh caught the writing bug from his favorite author, Stephen King. He started out writing short stories and eventually discovered that long-form writing was a great medium to share information with product development teams, resulting in his book How to Deliver Bad News and Get Away with It: A Manager’s Guide (Greenleaf Book Group / January 14, 2025).
Mahesh is passionate about mentoring others, especially folks who are interested in becoming a people manager and newer managers who are just getting going.
Website: https://www.maheshguruswamy.com
Social Media Links:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maheshguruswamy
X: https://x.com/mahesh_gkumar
Substack: https://maheshguruswamy.substack.com
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