by Rajan Singh | Oct 21, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
If you have to shoot two birds in the sky, what should you do? If you try to shoot both at the same time, you will shoot in the middle and miss both. The right answer is obvious: Shoot one by one. But if you focus on one of them, won’t the other one fly away. It...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 20, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
A McKinsey colleague once told me a funny yet sad story of this old lady working at a client company. He had to meet her a few times with some data requests. Since she used to always appear busy and overworked, he asked her what her job was. Turns out, she used to...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 19, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
Here is a powerful lesson in focus and getting things done, from an age-old army tactic – ‘bayonet-charge’. During a bayonet charge, army units are trained to scream their war cry like maniacs. Why is that? Because if they attacked silently, the...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 18, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
Before you quit your job and become an entrepreneur to earn untold riches, please read this story. In the early 2000s, when I was serving as the Trivandrum Police Commissioner, my office staff one day asked me, ‘Sir, can we send our office jeep to police...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 17, 2022 | Productivity, High-Performance, Flow
In 1980, the world witnessed one of the greatest games of ice hockey ever played in the 20th century. The U.S. National hockey team beat the Soviets by 4-3 during the Winter Olympics. The Soviets were favoured to win, being the unbeaten champions of the last five...
