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...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 7, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
Can losing a job be an opportunity? I don’t want to sugarcoat or give a feel-good answer. But let me share a few experiences. When I was running my last startup, the first Covid lockdown forced us to shut shop. Within a week, we had no business, no revenue,...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 4, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
During the compulsory military training in Taiwan, recruits are seemingly trained with a singular objective – to pass the exams. When practicing the bayonet drill, you practice a chant for each movement, which is what they will test for in the exam. But unfortunately,...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 3, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
When I was leaving my last job to do a startup, my family asked me to reconsider because ‘doing business is not in our genes.’ Do genes predispose us toward some professions? At first blush, this hypothesis seems fairly tenable. In the US, I saw that a lot of motels...
