A conversation with Payal Nanjiani, Author and Leadership Coach.
Category: Personal Stories
A Podcast with The Filter Koffee
When I did a podcast with Karthik Nagarajan of The Filter Koffee Podcast.
‘Age of Information and Age of Choices’
A few days back, in an attempt to reduce the number of times I reach out to the mobile phone involuntarily, I set up a timer for the screen time of WhatsApp. For now, it is working. Most of us have enough anecdotal stories of our attempts to reduce the infinite scrolling and browsing, with…
A Death, Cats and Washing Machines, and a Way of Seeing the World
I have never been a religious person, barring the first 15 years or so, though I grew up in a deeply religious and ritualistic family. Since high school, I have moved in the spectrum of agnosticism to atheism, finally settling for the latter. No compulsions or pressures from home also helped my cause. During my…
The Serendipity of Discovering Books
When the famous author Nassim Taleb coined the phrase ‘antilibrary,’ so many of us, across the world, felt a sigh of relief. Felt validated. Legitimised. Liberated from the guilt of buying more books than one could read. Antilibrary refers to the number of books in your personal collection that you have not read. “The library…
When Care Is Expressed As Fear
(First Published in ThriveGlobal) ‘Fearlessness’ is often a quality highly acknowledged and celebrated. Even if one is not, it is a quality that is projected or sometimes granted by people. But, personally for me, I have to admit I have largely been a fearful person. Such candid admission might not well augur for my outward…
Cricket in the time of Diarrhea
I had stopped watching cricket on television or tracking the game many years back. I don’t remember exactly when I lost interest though. In any case, I was not a fan by any Indian standards. Yes, we played some cricket during school days, near home with cousins, with sturdy bats made of coconut stem, which…
How do you measure meaning in an organisation?
This is triggered by a question Sairee Chahal, Founder of Sheroes, asked on Twitter. “How do you measure meaning in a startup?” This is just an attempt, based on my experience, fully acknowledging this may not be a flawless answer. I changed the word ‘startup’ to ‘organisation’ since my experience was leading a business unit that was part of a larger organisation….
What does Good Luck mean to you?
(Originally published in the IMPACT 13th Anniversary Issue on Good Luck, a collection of notes from over 200 people in the Indian Marketing, Media & Advertisement industry on what luck means to them) The dictionary meaning of ‘Luck’ is “success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions.” By that definition, I do not…
What Inspires You
(Originally published in the IMPACT 12th Anniversary Issue on Inspirations (2016), a collection of notes from over 200 people in the Indian Marketing, Media & Advertisement industry on what inspires them) When you are struggling to write 250 words on ‘what inspires you,’ it can perhaps mean only two things. Either nothing or everything inspires you. Since I…