Perseverance Overrated With Deepthi Rajan
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -Welcome to Perseverance Overrated! The show to get inspired by stories of gumption, resilience and life changing pivots! Each fortnight, we talk to exceptional individuals who chose the road less traveled, who chose to be the exception rather than the norm and learn what choices did they make and how did their choices shape them. On Perseverance Overrated, each fortnight, we cover a host of topics from emerging technology, digital transformation, business strategy, entrepreneurship, careers to personal development
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How To Finance Your Business School Journey? Snehal Sharma, Kenan Flagler Business School 2022 Admit, Shares Practical And Uncommon Tips On Financing Your MBA Without Stressing Out
May 09, 2022 13:30 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBWhether you are planning to start your MBA application journey to some of the top business schools in the world or waiting for your MBA admission decision, you'll find this episode of Perseverance Overrated Show incredibly useful. Deepthi Rajan speaks with Snehal Sharma, who won admission this year to the 2-year MBA program at the prestigious Kenan Flagler Business School. Deepthi set out to learn from Snehal how she went about financing her soon-to-begin 22-month business school journey i...
How Cofounders Effortlessly Destroy Their Startups? 7 Actionable Advice from the Successful Founding Trio of Aureus Analytics on the Why and How of Dealing with Cofounder Conflicts
February 19, 2021 12:30 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBIn this episode of the Perseverance Overrated Show, Deepthi Rajan speaks with the dynamic founding trio of Aureus Analytics, comprising Anurag Shah, the Chief Executive Officer, Ashish Tanna, the Chief Operating Officer and Nitin Purohit, the Chief Technology Officer. A pioneer in big data analytics, Aureus Analytics was founded in 2013 and has since then witnessed a stellar growth journey, thanks to its incredible founding team. In the last 8 years, Aureus’ product journey has taken extra...
Radhika Kawlra Singh On Why Self-Inquiry Is Crucial For Lifelong Success
December 07, 2020 13:30 - 1 hour - 51 MBOn the Perseverance Overrated Show, Deepthi Rajan speaks with Radhika Kawlra Singh, author of the best selling book, You will be okay, and one of India’s premier mind coaches who has coached some of our finest sportspersons (that include the likes of India’s only Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra and ace cricketer Gautam Gambhir), actors and CEOs. In this episode, Radhika explains how her latest bestselling book, You will be okay, will help individuals flip their negative narratives both...
Anthony Moore On THE BIGGEST LIE We Tell Ourselves About Being Productive
November 30, 2020 15:30 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBIn this episode of Perseverance Overrated, Deepthi Rajan speaks with Anthony Moore, a prominent voice on productivity, a successful coach, an author and a digital entrepreneur, who has helped millions of people transform their professional and personal lives. Anthony shares priceless secrets and advice on productivity, entrepreneurship, writing, and just being your “best self”. From demystifying some of the biggest productivity myths, unpacking how to rein in spiraling negative thoughts, t...
Kewal Kapoor on Why Ageism Is The Most Insidious Of All Discriminations
August 26, 2020 06:30 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBIn this episode of Perseverance Overrated, Deepthi Rajan speaks with Kewal Kapoor, an active voice against age discrimination, and founder of “The Return of the million smiles” initiative that promotes dignified ageing. Kewal talks about ageism and its implications in knowledge driven industries such as tech and consulting. About Kewal Kapoor With a successful and multi faceted career as a writer, journalist, producer and director behind him, Mr. Kewal Kapoor had just the appropriate cro...
Hook, Line and Sinker - Dr David Robert Grimes on Why We Willingly Fall For False Information And How We Can Fight The Deception
July 13, 2020 03:30 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBIn this episode of the Perseverance Overrated Show, Prayukth K V speaks with Dr David Robert Grimes, an Irish physicist, cancer researcher, science communicator and author of the best seller, The Irrational Ape. The Irrational Ape is David's first book. In an era characterized by fake news, social media mobbing and reactionary behavior, David examines situations where our perceptions fail us, our biases overwhelm our cognitive capabilities and our need to react simply drowns logic and rea...
The truth about how companies destroy productivity - Steve Glaveski on the fascinating science of why companies are stuck in a time warp
June 15, 2020 17:30 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBIn this episode of the Perseverance Overrated Show, Deepthi Rajan speaks with Steve Glaveski, who shares his perspective on how modern day workplaces destroy productivity. Steve is the Founder and CEO of Collective Campus, an innovation accelerator based in Melbourne and Singapore, that works with large organizations around the globe. Collective Campus was recognized by the Australian Financial Review as one of Australia’s fastest-growing new companies in 2018. He also founded Lemonade Sta...
Saurabh Chandra On How To Harness Your Strong Bias For Action With Contemplation And Compassion
May 18, 2020 17:30 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBIn this episode of the Perseverance Overrated show, Deepthi Rajan chats with Saurabh Chandra. An inveterate entrepreneur, Saurabh has in the past, successfully founded and sold two other ventures, one an EdTech firm and the other a health-based e-commerce portal. Saurabh has used his entrepreneurial skills to chart an exceptionally successful corporate career as well. The former CTO of Amazon India, Saurabh has held multiple executive and C-level positions with startups and Fortune 500 co...
We Are All Marketers! Harish Bijoor On How To Make Your Brand Stand Out
April 28, 2020 01:30 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBIn this episode of the Perseverance Overrated show, Deepthi Rajan chats with Harish Bijoor, one of the foremost authorities on Branding and Marketing. Harish has spent his career across the aggressive realms of FMCG, Telecom and Consumer Durables. Leaving a stellar corporate career, Harish founded his company at a time as he says, “when start-up was not even a word”. He didn’t stop at just being an entrepreneur. From authoring books, writing popular columns for leading publications, teachi...
Mark Birch on his mission. To solve the toughest conundrum facing enterprises - How to create a software engineering culture that allows innovation to thrive
March 31, 2020 01:30 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBIn this episode of the Perseverance Overrated Show, Deepthi Rajan speaks with Mark Birch, an enterprise software tech entrepreneur, business development expert, and startup advisor based in Singapore and NYC. Mark is the Founder of DEV.BIZ.OPS, helping enterprises build thriving software developer communities. He is also the founder of the Enterprise Sales Forum, a global community of 25,000 B2B sales professionals that meet in local chapters to collaborate, network, and learn. Previous...
From acing the C-Suite to traversing the labyrinths of entrepreneurship - Sukumar Rajagopal on disrupting the Digital Transformation space, one Tiny Magiq at a time
January 14, 2020 12:30 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBIn this episode of the Perseverance Overrated Show, Deepthi Rajan speaks with Sukumar Rajagopal, Founder and CEO of Tiny Magiq, a company doing breakthrough work in Digital and Behavioural Transformation. Sukumar has 30+ years of industry experience. Prior to Tiny Magiq, he was at Cognizant for 19 years serving as the Global Chief Information Officer and the Global Head of Innovation and led several transformation programs. Prior to Cognizant, Sukumar spent 7 years at TATA Consultancy ...
Can you catapult into brand new roles, niche after niche? Prayukth K V on building brands in the tough emerging IoT space and the eternal quest to stay relevant
December 08, 2019 03:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBIn the very first episode of the Perseverance Overrated show, Deepthi Rajan chats with Prayukth K V, an emerging technology marketing thought leader and the CMO-IoT at Subex, about his journey so far. Segueing from traditional marketing to building a career in emerging technology, those of IoT and IoT cybersecurity, Prayukth has demonstrated leadership in building successful corporate brands in the digital transformation space from the ground up, defining the business strategy, reinventing...
For the love of Blockchain! Srinivas Mahankali on continually stepping outside his comfort zone and mastering Blockchain
December 08, 2019 03:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBIn this episode of the Perseverance Overrated show, Deepthi Rajan chats with Srinivas Mahankali, one of the foremost authorities on Blockchain in India and the Principal Consultant - Blockchain at NISG, about his journey so far. Srini talks about his many roles, from being a Sales and Marketing Manager, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Information Officer to heading the Blockchain CoE. Srinivas is now leading the Blockchain efforts at the National Institute for Smar...