by Rajan Singh | Sep 26, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
Our obsession with ‘billion’ has made us lose touch with reality. If you are building a startup, it HAS to be a unicorn. If you are an entrepreneur, you have to be a billionaire. Gentle reminder: A billion dollars is more than Rs 7,000 crores. The...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 26, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
A leader who ONLY tells the crowd what they want to hear is not a leader — he is just following the crowd from the front. Today, most political leaders across the globe are ‘followers from the front.’ Leadership takes the courage to be disliked. That...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 26, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
I took up my last job at a private equity fund after quitting McKinsey. I soon found that I had no idea about the jargon they were using. I had not even heard terms like Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and termsheet. In fact, once by mistake, I told a company in the...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 23, 2022 | 2022, Newsletter
This question is controversial – hence worth talking about. Let us start by dissecting it further. When we talk about balancing work and life, we assume that they are in conflict – that one of them comes at the cost of the other. And somehow, we need to find that...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 23, 2022 | Consistency, Discipline, Willpower
Once a participant in a HabitStrong bootcamp lamented to me, “Yesterday, I wasted my whole evening watching TV – I just could not stop myself. How can I change that?” And he was not alone. Many of us have felt that frustration of getting sucked into doing...
