"PAPERCUTS: How Subtle Forces Silence Us and Erode Our Power at Work."
In high functioning workplaces, harm rarely looks like conflict. It arrives dressed as care, competence, and collaboration until something essential begins to fade.
PAPERCUTS exposes the invisible microdynamics that erode confidence and authenticity among capable professionals.
Through forty-five sharply observed vignettes drawn from two decades of executive coaching, Jahnavi Gurjer reveals how quiet exchanges of help, harmony, and feedback can gradually silence instinct and agency.
Instead of quick fixes, the book gives language to what has long gone unnamed by restoring voice, authority, and belonging in environments where success and self have quietly diverged.
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Jahnavi Gurjer
Jahnavi Gurjer is a leadership coach, group relations practitioner, doctoral researcher at the Indian School of Business (ISB) and Co-founder of Vital Signs Advisory. Her work explores the invisible dynamics of power, identity, and belonging in contemporary organisations.
Over the past twentyfive years, she has coached founders, executives, and teams across industries, helping them navigate the subtle tradeoffs between performance and authenticity.
Trained in systems thinking and organisational behaviour, she bridges psychology, leadership practice, and research to illuminate what quietly shapes people at work.
Papercuts is her most personal and incisive work. It is her invitation to see what disappears when success demands silence.
She lives in Bengaluru with her family and her golden retriever, Moca. As a mother to a son with Type 1 diabetes, she is committed to improving awareness and care for the condition in India.
All proceeds from Papercuts will support this initiative.
