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About Mr Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra

Rendezvous Mr Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra Key Professional Accomplishments:
• Additional key positions held
o Chairman – Lanka IOC (Indian Oil’s subsidiary in
Age 55
Sri Lanka)
Hometown Bhubaneswar o State Head – West Bengal State Offi ce of
IndianOil’s Marketing Division
Values Most Transperency & Integrity
o Managing Director – Indian Oil (Mauritius) Ltd.
(Indian Oil’s subsidiary)
Passionate pursuits Reading
Greatest Infl uencer while Father and Science • Major Professional Interventions
growing up Teacher o Nation Building: Active contribution in Pradhan
Greatest influencer for his Would be unfair to name Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

career today just a few o Business Strategy: One of the chief architects of
the introductory auto fuel quality upgradation
Sports he follows Cricket and Football
programmes for Oil Marketing Companies in
Favourite Books (Any 2) My Experiments with India
Truth by Mahatma o HR Transformation: Reshaping the HR policies,
Gandhi e-Learning, HR facilitator and a move towards an
Originals by Adam Grant integrated talent management system

RKM: Failure is life’s great teacher; it’s nature’s chisel that upsets, setbacks, and failures. It’s not as glamorous to talk
chips away at all the excess, stripping down egos as
about those things. Celebrate your failure successfully and
it moulds and shapes us through divine intentions. learn from it & do not repeat the instance to fail again.

Without failure, we’d be less capable of compassion, Pushing forward and not giving up is possibly one of the
empathy, kindness, and achievement; we would be less best ways to recover from failure. Remember, it’s not a
likely to reach for the moon and the stars. It is equally true failure unless you throw in that proverbial towel and
important for an organisation as well as for an individual. wholeheartedly give up forever.
But failure should occur only once - repeating a failure is
the real failure. How much is too much on Social Media for
SR: branding oneself & what is the effect on the

But, for those who have known true failure, and have candidature if you were to hire the candidate who is too
bounced back from it, understand that failure in life is much on Social Media?
necessary for success. Sure, failing hurts. In fact, it cuts RKM: It is a dicey question

deep like a razor, slicing its way to our inner core. Yet, it’s There are 2 sides of it
necessary.
One side
And the most successful people in life have failed the A recent study by the Society For Human Resource
most times. If you try to go through life without failing at Management (SHRM) found that 84% of employers
anything, then you’re not really living a life at all. Taking recruit via social media and 43% of employers screen job

risks and falling down flat on our faces is part of life; it candidates through social networks and search engines.
makes us into who we are.

And what they find could give you a leg up, but it could
My message to youngsters is - Society tends to celebrate also disqualify a candidate from their dream job.
the successes rather than highlighting the epic journeys

towards success that are filled with trials, tribulations, The same study found 36% of companies have actually
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