Independent, curious and funny.
How would you describe yourself in three words?
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What is your greatest fear?
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What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong?
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What problem are you still trying to solve?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I am very impatient, impulsive, proactive and often act in haste.
Dr. Pritam Singh and Dr. Asha Bhandarker, People Matters, 15 March 2011 source ↗
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Fizzy like lemonade.
Funny, loyal, genuine.
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Don’t be a “me too” entrepreneur. Leaders and organizations that only follow cannot be successful over the long term.
Then, I would have made a difference to humankind. That will be the legacy I would like to leave.
As a businesswoman, I admire Indra Nooyi, because of the way she is transforming Pepsi into a 'healthy' fast food organisation
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Shweta Punj, Most Powerful Women in Business 2011, Business Today, 18 September 2011
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But this is a herd-like mentality as they only back e-tailing and not life science ventures based on genomics et cetera.
I really want to bring an innovative drug to the global market.
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