Raja Shanmugam will don a new leadership role at MindTree Consulting in April 2009. He will give up being an operations manager, designated senior vice-president and head of Asia Pacific with the Bangalore-based information technology services company, and take on a pure corporate social responsibility, or CSR, activity of MindTree Foundation.

After 21 years in the IT industry, the last nine with MindTree, Shanmugam owes this sharp change in course to 16 hours, spread over four sessions of four hours each, with MindTree co-founder Subroto Bagchi, designated Gardener and director.

"Self awareness leads to mental capacity enhancement. It sharpens the emotional quotient, or EQ, that most managers with high IQ (intelligence quotient) may lack," says Bagchi, who also gave us a written FAQ on the subject. He conducts these leadership sessions, dubbed gardening, over a three-month period.

Image: Mindtree logo, (inset) Subroto Bagchi. | Photograph, courtesy: Mindtree Consulting

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