by Rajan Singh | Dec 18, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
At an investment fund I worked with, one of my bosses (Victor Menezes) did something remarkable — after graduating from MIT’s MBA program, he never changed jobs. He worked at the same firm (Citi) all his life, becoming the global CEO of Citibank, and retiring as a...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 17, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
When I decided to leave consulting and join private equity, my biggest consideration was not money — instead, I wanted my life back. I wanted to rediscover my health and peace of mind. I wanted to see the sunset and sunrise, at least on some days. I wanted to feel...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 16, 2024 | 2024, Newsletter, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I spoke to a retired CFO of a large Indian company who recently launched his consulting business. And he told me something that made me think. He said, “When I started my consulting business, I accepted any client – big or small. So our client base...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 16, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
Why do we need to remember things when everything is just one Google search away? (Or these days, one ChatGPT query away). In fact, this was the logic once proffered for why we didn’t need to learn multiplication tables — or for that matter, anything...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 13, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
Stop hoarding PDFs, podcasts, videos, e-books, and online courses. We already have enough. The problem is something else. Can you guess what? Our reflex answer — ‘I don’t have time.’ Not true. Here is what is going on. When we have to pick a...
