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What is the best life or business advice you have received and from whom?
The best life and business advice I received was from my father, Late Shri Rameshchandra Khokhani who said that “Nobody can beat experience and experience is nothing but one’s positive self belief” and “Choose the path in life and follow it without bothering what is happening around.”
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Which are your favorite books? What are your learnings from them?
My favourite books are:
a] “You can Win” by Shiv Khera – Positive attitude, self belief and positive actions bring success.
b] “How to win friends and influence people” by Dale Carnegie – Better communication skills.
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Any life or business lessons learned from a movie?
The movie ‘Iqbal’. The most important lessons I have learnt was that “success can be achieved despite all challenges with passion, hard work, determination and focus.
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How do you update yourself? How do you learn new things?
I update myself by reading current affairs, news, magazines, blogs, articles and most important any conversation I have with anyone during business hours. I keep on asking questions related to other field of expertise. I also do not hesitate to hire a professional business coach from whom I learnt huge amount of modern simple and effective management techniques.
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What are some lessons you have learned from your life experience?
The capability of an individual is based on his/her environment and experiences and hence it is futile to expect your team to work according to your capability. As a leader, all capabilities / experiences have to be brought together for the common goal of the company.
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What is your advice to the younger entrepreneurs / businesspersons / professionals?
My only advice would be to identify the area in which they are passionate about, learn and master the field and focus to implement it successfully.
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How do you motivate yourself?
I motivate myself by taking inspiration from my contemporaries and other successful entrepreneurs in my field who have achieved far greater success and that keeps me going and motivate myself.
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How do you balance work and family life?
I try to maintain strict time management and do not mix the family and work time strictly and hence do not entertain the calls after the office work hours.
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What do you do to take care of your physical health?
I have not been able to do so strictly in past one year. However, I am working on it and focusing on eating right and having some physical activities every day.
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What do you do to take care of your mental health?
I take care of my mental health by not over committing myself and inviting unwanted stress and deal with the things very calmly irrespective of the situation.
About Kamlesh Khokhani:
Currently spearheading a rapidly growing pharma company, he started at a very early age of 20 years before doing MBA.
He transformed family business single-handedly from a local distribution company to an export oriented company focusing only on exports.
He then took a sabbatical to do an MBA from Newport University, USA and then resumed the export business after MBA and focused on marketing to overseas customers. He broke traditional distribution channel of European traders and established direct contacts with the end users.
His was the first company to enter South American market directly in competition with large European traders and Dr. Reddy’s who were the only ones present at that time by gaining trust and confidence of factory owners for marketing their products through Quality Management and Sales Management.
He faced numerous challenges as an entrepreneur and running the family business which was handled independently. He has gone through a lot of challenges and fought each of them and come out of it with better learning experience and knowledge.
