Poonam Chandel

Ms Poonam Chandel is the Chief Operating Officer of Cobra Indian Beer Pvt Ltd. A gold medallist at the International Institute of Management Studies, Shimla, she has made Cobra the fastest growing beer brand in India. Here’s her take on four questions from Business Line:

Two things that my education/training taught me:

Be humble when it comes to learning — admit when you don’t know, only then will others want to teach you.

While answering queries be as simple and methodical as possible.

Two things I learnt from my work/real life:

Be honest and forthright even when taking the most difficult decisions.

Be ready to run the extra mile.

One quality I look for the most in a new recruit:

Willingness to learn

A book that I read recently:

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.

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