by Rajan Singh | Apr 7, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Conventional wisdom says: Prioritize tasks that are urgent AND important. No — this advice isn’t good enough. If something is urgent and important, it is called ‘firefighting.’ And firefighting destroys peace of mind. So you should be asking:...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 4, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
About 20 years back, I stopped watching TV. It all started with this addiction to TV I had started developing in the early 2000s, when I would mindlessly switch on the TV after a stressful day at work. Soon, I started worrying about missing this or that episode, or...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 3, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Long ago, a friend who took the NDA/military career route was telling me about the bayonet charge routine in the army. In a bayonet charge, you run towards and attack an enemy bunker typically defended by a machine gun firing 10 bullets per second. What are the odds...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 2, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Whenever consultants want to say something, they always have ‘three things.’ And we mock them for that 🙂 But if you want to communicate well, there is some real science here — the science of working memory. It turns out that our working memory can...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 1, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
A former McKinsey colleague of mine from Australia once said that his father would claim insulin from the Australian Health System and give it to their dog. But how did the dog become diabetic? Aren’t animals supposed to be naturally healthy? Actually, we are...
