The Hindu Business Line : Home life and work life are two sides of a coin

Ms Sadhana Somasekhar is Director and Chief Marketing Officer, Focus Infotech, a leading strategic IT-HR and managed solutions provider. She oversees more than 150 employees, who provide consulting and software development solutions for clients.

A post-graduate (MS) in Medical Technology, Ms Sadhana also has an Honours in Systems Analysis from NIIT and is a Cisco certified Advanced Sales Expert. She gave up life sciences to get into a marketing career, selling networking products, computers and software.

Prior to Focus Infotech, Ms Sadhana worked in various capacities, as Vice-President (International Operations), Nexus Computers Ltd, and Chief Marketing Officer of US-based Kanoon Inc. Here's her take on four questions from Business Line:

Two things that my education/training taught me:

To be in control and confident. And to be able to come across that way, you have to be well prepared in your subject.

Effective communication brings success several steps closer.

Two things I learnt from my work/real life:

The strength and the passion of your belief will take you through whatever you attempt/address.

Home life and work life are two sides of a coin. Excelling in both is necessary to enjoy either separately.

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

Communication skills

A book that I read recently:

John Kotter's, Our Iceberg Is Melting.

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