Winning Stroke: Interview with Shailja Dutt, Founder & Chairperson, Stellar Search

1) If not in the current Profession, You would be?

Ans: A spy, most definitely

2) One tune you always hum?

Ans: “Rote hue aate hain sab…hansta hua jo jayegaa”, from Muquaddar ka Sikandar.

3) One Book to read when you want to motivate yourselves?

Ans: Barking up the wrong tree – Eric Barker’s blogs.

4) One Dialogue of a movie that motivates you or you like the most?

Ans: Being in the business of Executive Search I love “I’m gonna make him am an offer he can’t refuse” from the Godfather.

5) The Place you never been to and always want to go?

Ans: Antarctica – its very high on my bucket list.

6) An animal that signifies you & why?

Ans: My spirit animal is ‘Pegasus’ – the horse that can fly!

7) A Movie Character you most resemble or resonate with?

Ans: Han Solo from Star Wars – the maverick!

8) If your life was to be turned into a movie who would you like to play your part?

Ans: Sandra Bullock

9) Luck or Hard Work, What do you think weighs more in defining a successful Person?

Ans: ‘Destiny does not define me! My choices do, my actions do’.

10) The best decision you ever made?

Ans: Entrepreneurship, I highly recommend it!

11) A strategy that you always use to take decisions in your Personal or Professional life? 

Ans: I focus on the outcome, the end game. No reactive behaviour. My actions must be focused on the outcome.

12) Whose advise you seek when in dilemma?

Ans: I try to listen to my Inner voice, when that fails I turn to my family, my loved ones.

13) What has been your biggest achievement? 

Ans: I think it’s yet to happen.

14) One thing that you want to change in yourself?

Ans: I would like to stop being critical. I am extremely critical of myself and others.

15) A line said by your closed one that you never forget?

Ans: My younger son Arsh once told me  - “Mom life is not about collecting material things, it’s about making memories”. That moment was life changing for me.