by Rajan Singh | Oct 14, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
I had to give a TEDx talk at IIM Ranchi but did not start working on the script until I had three days left. And I was not procrastinating. I was testing a new productivity idea — ‘doing things at the last responsible moment.’ When we have too much...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 11, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
We all want to change the world, which is really hard. But we don’t want to change ourselves, which should be pretty easy. Why? Because changing the world is a fantasy. And fantasies feel good. On the other hand, for changing ourselves, there are no excuses we...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 10, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
When I was learning meditation, I was utterly confused by all the contradictory information out there on blogs, YouTube, etc. So I tried reading the original text on Buddhist meditation (Satipatthana sutta). And the one thing that shocked me was ‘death contemplation’,...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 9, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
One of the joys of working in government is the plethora of committees and meetings 🙂 But now even the private sector seems to be catching up on that. Like entropy, the number of committees (and their meetings) only goes up. Here is why. In government, whenever there...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 8, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
At McKinsey, when I was once in a really tight spot, a young woman at one of the Firm’s specialist groups came to my rescue. Under an impossible deadline, I had to geo-map hundreds of branches of a bank (our client). But this lady got it done. So while thanking...
