Failing Failure: Recent Episodes
Failing Failure
Failing Failure by Think Sage is aimed to inspire, educate and transform our listeners through the stories of remarkable humans. Even the most successful people have gone through numerous obstacles to reach where they are today. In this show, we dig deeper into their success strategies, tools, and tactics that our listeners can use at the time of making their critical career growth decisions.
In this video we will talk about 5 CV mistakes that you might be making, and our mentor Vijay Chandola will explain exactly how you can fix them, improve your CV and start landing more job interviews.You can use the following resources to improve your job application success rate -
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Dr. Gita Chaudhuri is a Ph. D in English Literature from Gujarat University. She received the Professor F.C Davar Gold Medal for achieving first rank in MA. She was a Visiting Faculty member at IIM Udaipur from 2012 to 2020 where she taught Written Analysis and Communication (WAC). She has also taught the same course at IIM Ahmedabad. She also taught Communicative English at St Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad for five years. Besides her interest in teaching, she has an abiding interest in translation of literary works. In 2017 she received the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for translating Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography My Experiments with Truth from the original Gujarati - Satya na Prayogo into Bangla – Satyer Anweshan. She has several publications to her credit. Her translation of the first Dalit Gujarati autobiography Purna Satya by Keshar Shivam into English, The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth has been published by Samya Publication, Kolkata. It is used as a text in Germany.
Anand Kasturi is a consultant Trainer, an Executive Coach and a mentor with 20+ years of experience specialising in the area of Customer Centricity and Services Management.
He has impacted organisations such as Oracle, Vodafone, Deutsche Bank, Accenture, Texas Instruments, Philips, ABB and many others. He has also conducted workshops on service management in various countries including Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, UK, Germany, and the USA.
He has done his PhD in service management from University of Buckingham. He is an IIT Madras Alumni and has done his MBA from IIM Bangalore.
In this Podcast, he talks about being flexible, experimenting with career choices and making early career decisions.
Ambi Parameswaran is a brand coach, brand strategist and author. He has a great career span of 35+ years in sales, marketing and advertising with renowned brands and companies. He has authored many bestselling books and in the podcast, he shares about the falls, rises and learnings in his career.
Srinivasan Tatachari is a faculty member at TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal. He holds a Phd and MBA degree from IIM Bangalore. He is an engineer by education and a researcher in the field of Observational Behaviour by passion. In the talk, he shares his insightful journey about transitioning from a corporate job to an academician.
Shaan Suhas Kumar, Miss India Earth Winner 2017, is currently working as a Programme Manager at Wedu Global. She was also a former Global Ambassador of World Merit, Teach For India Fellow and Climate Tracker South Asia Fellow.
As her LinkedIn bio suggests, connecting with people, and communicating are her strong suits. She has served as an ambassador to multiple national and international organisations focused on sustainable development and has made thousands of young people aware of the United Nations Global Goals and 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development, to inspire them to act.
She cares about creating positive team cultures and supporting people to succeed, personally and professionally. Finding ways to do things bigger and better, and figuring out methods to be resourceful when faced with constraints, are things that excite her.
In this podcast, she shares her existing journey of finding purpose and passion, representing India at an International Pageant (Miss Earth) and working on causes like Climate change, Education and Gender equality.
In this episode, Niwas talks about his journey of understanding the discrimination faced by transgenders on day to day basis, systemic challenges in addressing the issue at each level; schools, jobs and social inclusion. He shares his insightful experiences of working with social enterprises leading social inclusion of transgenders and learning everyday new.
In this episode, Ashutosh talks about his journey as a software engineer to being part of a startup that inspires thousands of young entrepreneurs today.
In this podcast, Kiran talks about his struggles into getting people to donate blood and his exceptional journey that changed his perspective on how he saw life.
In today's podcast, Abhijit takes us through his journey from realizing how disordered our current educational institutes are to building something that can challenge the system and disrupt our way of learning in a few years.
Niladri Banerjee is an MBA with varied experiences in Media, Advertising and Analytics industries. He has worked with organizations like General Electric, J Walter Thompson, Mindshare, Lowe Lintas and ABP. For the last five years he has been working as a CEO with a media group in Kolkata which publishes a newspaper ‘Ekdin’.
Suman Paul is the Chief Marketing Officer of Ability Games and one of India’s most prominent marketers across India's Gaming Industry. He is one of the pioneers of the industry and have evolved theories and practices that we as aspirants read in the books and magazines. He also heads marketing at 11wickets.com which is among India’s top-5 fantasy sports platforms with 3.5 million Users and has the lowest cost per acquisition (CoA). He is also associated with many prestigious B Schools such as IIMs as a mentor, guest faculty & Keynote speaker.
Kalpesh Kabra is the founder of Human Welfare Charitable Trust India Foundation. The story of a bright student from a rural school touched his heart. He wanted to study further, but had to work in the field to support his family! This triggered the founder's mind to do something for such students who have bright opportunities ahead but are falling back due to lack of resources. "A lot can be done, we each one of us do their part to support and enable rural education" - is what Kaplesh believes in.
Kolkata-based Sumit Agarwal launched PR Signal, a public relations firm in 2017. He talks about life with cerebral palsy, the challenges he overcame along the way, and what it means to be inclusive in India.
Saurabh Bajaj, currently the Marketing Head - Dairy at Britannia Industries Limited, holds expertise in Business Development, Sales, Marketing & Innovation. From being a Civil Engineer graduate from Delhi College of Engineering who enjoyed pure sciences & research, he went on to become a proud alumni of IIM Indore to pursue a career in marketing in FMCG. He has over 16 years of experience in top companies like Britannia Industries, USL Diageo, Mondelez (Cadbury) & Wipro Consumer Care. He has also recently been recognized as a Marketing Marvel by White Page International as the Best 50 Marketers.
Sanjeev Choudhary is a Sales Director at Mediascope, India's largest International Media consulting company. He is am MBA in Marketing & International Business and has more than 12 years of enriching experience in sales & marketing. An analytical thinker, Sanjeev believes in approaching every business problem with a different approach to keep himself motivated for handling multiple projects.
Kumar Raghvendra is a business leader and a coach with a life mission to enable people and organizations to be their best. Currently working as Director, Sales (Delhi & Modern Retail Operations) at Procter & Gamble, he is living his mission by establishing a culture of peak performance, productivity and inclusion in corporates and business executives. With his humble background from a small village in Bihar, his growth to leadership positions is a story built on grit, ambition and a purpose-driven life.
Rahul Agarwal, is a Globally acclaimed media professional, distant fellow of the United Nation RAF and an Editor Govt. Affairs at News Point, India. His work focuses on the disseminating the Information on Govt Digital Platforms. He has played an instrumental role in designing and managing the social media platforms and driving content strategy for Govt. of India. He is also an author and has won the CNN International Young Journalist Award South Asia for his story, ‘Dead Man Walking’.
Sanah Singh Tomar is a transformation leader with over 20 years experience in the field of human capability development. Through her coaching & consulting practice, she partners with organizations and individuals to take their performance, well-being and leadership to the next level. A life long learner and a well-being enthusiast, who has found her purpose in growing and contributing consistently.
Mithileysh is the CEO of MIT Square, which focuses hugely on EduTech, AgroTech, and HealthTech. At the age of 19, he started his career as a social entrepreneur to empower youth. He successfully mentored 20,000+ students across India and turned several students into entrepreneurs. At the age of 29, he became the youngest vice-president of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (MSME CCII) by facilitating many entrepreneurs from India to foreign markets.
Srivas is the founder of Firstfeet Business Services. He is a mechanical engineer and an IIM alumnus and owns/co-owns 6 startups under different sectors. He worked in an MNC before being an entrepreneur and is responsible for ventures making great turnovers since the startup stage. He was awarded The Best CEO/Entrepreneur of the Year 2017, 2018 by Insight Success Forum.
Dipak Agarwal is the Director of Onex Solutions, an innovative platform for marketing and helping other entrepreneurs. He has always had an interest in advertising but to secure his career pursued CA. After completing graduation, he continued his job for a year in EY Delhi. In 2014, he got married to Hasha Agarwal who later joined Onex Solutions helping him with his business.
Biswarup Das is a renowned business leader in media industry. He started his career in sales role and eventually transitioned into marketing role. He has ~21 years of rich experience in the domain that spans across leading media house companies Bennett Coleman (Times of India group), ABP and Viacom group (parent company of Colors TV). Listen to his remarkable story of coming from a conventional family background and breaking the stereo type of what needs to be an insider in the industry.
Anurag Mishra is the co-founder of Cipher Schools, a startup helping students learn skills needed for their career. He dropped out of the Navy after 12th and completed his engineering from a Tier less college. From there, he founded a company HireScript which helped solve the problem of internships by connecting pre-vetted people looking for internships with the company hiring interns.
Dravisha is a young professional who loves to transform ideas into action for marketing, business development, strategy making, project management, product experience and mental health initiatives.
Mr Nand Kishore Chaudhary is the founder of Jaipur Rugs, and is often referred to as the 'Gandhi of the Carpet Industry'. In this episode, he talks about taking social entrepreneurship to a new level.
In this episode, Samaresh talks about the changes we need in our lifestyle and how to break the pattern of being in a monotonous style of living.
In this podcast, Shyam talks about his career and how he got started with his firm for helping farmers.
In this episode, Anish Chandy talks about how he got into copyrighting and discusses in depth about his role.