Winning Stroke: Interview with Alok Ranjan, CEO, Flipcarbon

1. If not in the current Profession, You would be?

Ans. A Chef

2. One tune you always hum?

Ans. Ruk Jana Nahi tum kahi har ke

3. One Book to read when you want to motivate yourselves?

Ans. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

4. One Dialogue of a movie that motivates you or you like the most?

Ans. There are basically two dialogue that motivates me

(1) Every champion was once a contender who refused to give up - Rocky

(2) Past can hurt either you can run from it or learn from it - Lionking

5. The Place you never been to and always want to go?

Ans. Iceland – Beautiful landscape need to see it to believe it

6. An animal that signifies you & why?

Ans. Horse - to me it signifies agility, a rare combination of swiftness & strength

7. A Movie Character you most resemble or resonate with?

Ans. Kabir the coach from Chak de India

8. Choose one from each below:

a) Marvel or DC - Marvel is more contemporary, they have a growth mindset and they are expanding

b) Batman or Superman - Batman, he uses his intelligence to defeat his enemies

c) Tom or Jerry - Jerry, she does not lose her cool even in the toughest of the time

d) Chacha Chaudhary or Super Commando Dhruv - Chacha Chaudhary - His brain works faster than a computer

9. If your life was to be turned into a movie who would you like to play your part?

Ans. Only I can do justice to my role, the second choice should be Ranbir Kapoor.H e was brilliant in portraying Sanjay Dutt on Screen

10. Luck or Hard Work, What do you think weighs more in defining a successful Person?

Ans. Hard work

11. One best decision you ever made?

Ans. Deciding to move from known to unknown - When a part of my previous organization was getting acquired people were given options to select whether to continue with the current organization or to move to the new organization and decided to move to new challenges, rest is a history

12. A strategy that you always use to take your decisions in Personal or Professional life?

Ans. My intuitive mind tells my analytical mind which direction to look for and then my analytical mind tells me which decision to take.

13. Whose advise you seek when in dilemma?

Ans. I go back to myself and my principles help me remove the cloud of ambiguity.

14. What has been your biggest achievement?

Ans. Yet to come

15. One thing that you want to change in yourself?

Ans. I operate from trusting environment and believe people till they prove me wrong now I am working to develop a habit of checking credentials

16. A line said by your closed one that you never forget?

Ans. Plan in the morning, execute through the day and celebrate by evening