by Rajan Singh | Dec 27, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
In my 2nd year at IIT, I started learning Taekwondo. I somehow took fancy to the idea of becoming a black-belt. Maybe, I saw too many martial arts movies. But when the training started, it was really intense. The warm-up itself used to practically kill us, even before...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 26, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
In my life, the only major career goal for which I had to truly struggle was getting into IIT. IIT made getting into Civil Services so much more doable — most of my classmates who aimed for it also made it. Once in the IPS, the exposure and confidence made it...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 23, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
In my last job as a private equity investor, I came across many Indian entrepreneurs whose parents set up the business from scratch. I remember one entrepreneur in the medical devices space, whose mother used to go wait outside doctors’ offices for hours, with...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 23, 2022 | Productivity, High-Performance, Flow
On any given week I’m usually juggling at least 3 important projects, all of which require my attention. On top of that, there is routine shallow work and unforeseen ad hoc tasks. Work rarely comes to us in a linear sequential form, allowing itself to be neatly...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 22, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
The most valuable lesson I learned at McKinsey was NOT making presentations or structured thinking, as valuable as they were. The best lesson was the experience of being at the bottom of an organization. Before my MBA, I was running a 3,500 strong police force,...
