by Rajan Singh | Mar 13, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
My best managers — be it in the Indian Police Service or at McKinsey — were not the charismatic ones with swagger or bravado. Instead their biggest quality was this: In a crisis, when things became rough, they remained calm — no freaking out, no rude...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 12, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
It was very hard and painful to see the photo of a poor taxi driver crushed in the Delhi Airport canopy collapse. And without facts, I won’t speculate on whose fault it was, and how far up the responsibility should go. But one thing I will tell you — if a...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 11, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
You cannot be 100% focused, 100% productive, all day long. In fact, don’t even try — it is a guarantee for self-inflicted agony. Life ebbs and flows. There are good days and bad days. Even within a day, our mood and energy go up and down. But here is the...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 10, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Around 2006, Steve Ballmer, the then CEO of Microsoft, came to Wharton for a talk. After he finished his talk, a student asked why Microsoft was not as innovative as Apple (or something to that effect). Ballmer said that Microsoft was a 95% market share company and...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 9, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
During my service in the police force, we once had a massive political riot after which, we arrested about 200 people. Now, before producing these people in a magistrate’s court, we had to do a lot of paperwork. So I put a team of officers on the job. After...
