Manish Narang - If the Goal You Achieve is Big, Small Things Should Not Matter At All (Co-founder - Market-xcel.com)

The reason for lying is mostly dependent on two things, either they desperately want the job or they are hiding something. So, knowing their reason for lying before coming to any conclusion is very important. If the person has lied about their educational qualifications in the resume, then we think about continuing the interview because for me educational qualifications do not matter that much. 

1. Tell us about your background, journey and upbringing.

The initial years of my life were pretty tough, but one person who did not let me be hopeless was my mom. She contributed a lot to the person I am today. She taught me the basic values one needs in order to conquer life. She taught me how to be a fighter and fight whatever obstacles came my way from being who I wanted to be.

She taught me to live life ethically, respectfully, spread love and positivity all around. On the education part, I was not one of the bright students; we can say I was a backbencher most of the time. I was very much active in sports. After high school I completed my graduation and master's from distance learning. Worked at different places, grabbed experience, and build myself into a better person day by day.

2. When and how did you get clarity on what you wanted to do?

I gave a company my premium 6 years of life and one day they just threw me out and I lost my job all of a sudden then and there I wanted answers, but they did not give any reason for firing me.

At that point I realized my true potential in this field, and we can say that at that moment I got my clarity of what I wanted to do. I started my own company with one computer and my friend in a small room and now look where time has bought us.

3. What does your typical workday look like?

My day starts a little early than others, I wake up at 4 or 4:30 am and take a bath, and sit for meditation, calming and relaxing my mind for at least an hour. When I am done meditating, I give my respect to the almighty and thank him for giving me one more day to live and giving me all the luxuries that I can afford today.

I then shift gears and go for a 1-hour run/workout. Till that time my dog is all charged up from his walk and is ready to play with me, I play with him for at least 30 minutes and then feed him. After that, I again go for a bath and get ready to go to the office. My day at the office usually goes by mentoring my colleagues and employees.

In the evening I and my team usually cool off and have some drinks and then we head home. I come back and take a bath before touching anything else or anyone at my house (Covid). After all that I sit with my daughters and play with the youngest one while she tells me what she did the whole day and what new letters she learned. With that, I don’t realize when time flies and I go to sleep till 11:00 pm.

4. Several global companies have come out and thrown their support behind not needing a formal education. What is your opinion about this?

They are totally on the right path if they believe that formal education is not important and I with my whole soul agree with them. I believe from my personal experience that when it comes to working performance matters more than educational qualifications what is more important are your skills and your attitude towards your work and also last but not least your work ethics. Anyone can get a degree or can fake one but it takes real hard work to develop skills and build an impressive attitude.

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5. How do you handle someone who has lied on their resume?

The reason for lying is mostly dependent on two things, either they desperately want the job or they are hiding something. So, knowing their reason for lying before coming to any conclusion is very important.

If the person has lied about their educational qualifications in the resume, then we think about continuing the interview because for me educational qualifications do not matter that much.

If I find the reason of lying reasonably; I would continue the interview and if I see the spark and willingness to do work in the person then I’ll have no problem of even hiring that person.

6. What are some of your typical challenges and how have they evolved over time?

Most of these are related to the HR department…when you hire somebody you make them a part of your family and you make them a part of your world, a lot of times when you celebrate occasions you celebrate it with your colleagues and employees as if they all are family and when suddenly due to some reason you have to fire them it becomes hard to tell them, also the same happens while hiring someone.

Some times while hiring someone due to some emotional pity or connect towards that person we tend to change the employment into disguised employment.

Some problems out of the HR department is to plan different tactics to keep yourself ahead in the market space and maintaining your position of performance there but again with pleasure comes pain so now me and my team are mostly ready for these challenges.

7. What advice do you have for aspiring entrepreneurs or those eyeing the top job?

I just love the energy and the enthusiasm of the new coming generation wanting to be entrepreneurs. Their hopes and the spark in their eyes make me go all nostalgic to the time when I was them.

But somewhere I feel that proper commerce training is missing in our education system some of the advice that I think is important for the rising stars of our country is that don’t rush for anything, change takes time but its constant, and one thing that no one actually talks about is plan B, another plan just in case the main one fails should always be there this should be done to make sure that you never stop working hard and prevent that fuel to go waste.

Always remember there will be lots of people or things that will cross your path and make it tougher than it already is but if the goal you achieve is big these small things should not matter at all.

8. Which is your favorite book and why?

The books that always remains in my core while taking any step forward in my life is “The monk who sold his Ferrari” by Robert Sharma and “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho.


“The Monk who sold his Ferrari gives me some very important life lessons that one should always be aware of. It talks about living life to the fullest and celebrating each day of life like it’s the last one.

Its main focus was on letting people know that in today’s world where materialistic things have become a need from a want, the main focus of life should be on one’s well-being of health. This book talks about the concernment of the responsibility of taking charge of one’s life and also the people depending on them.

“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho taught me about one of the most important aspect one should be aware of while starting their own business “leadership” when you work with a team under you the most important thing that should be in your mind that all of them take you as their mentor, their idol, someone who they dream of becoming, and likewise, men say “with great power comes great responsibility” the purpose of quoting that was your team will think of you as their everything but also when the team fails to do anything the leader in the one who is held in charge and that time if you manage to keep your team together you’ll manage to survive the race.

Last but definitely not least, this book made me believe that I can achieve whatever I want to by just learning the art of controlling my thoughts and my actions and in my opinion anyone who is willing to be successful can do that.