Papercuts: How Subtle Forces Silence Us and Erode Our Power at Work

"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.