by Rajan Singh | Feb 20, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
I am not hearing good things. From New York to Singapore, whoever you talk to, is talking about job losses. And the driving force is not economic recession, but almost certainly AI. We were debating whether AI will take jobs away. That debate is outdated — it is...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 19, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Yesterday, more than half a million people in India wrote the Civil Services exam, to compete for a few hundred jobs. From my firsthand experience, I can vouch that the kind of responsibilities these jobs give you while still in your twenties is unparalleled. But this...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 18, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
In my consulting days, we saved a client a few million dollars with a simple recommendation. This company was spending $10 million plus on postal mail, mostly on overnight/express delivery that cost 3 to 10 times more than normal (and slower) postal mail. So, by...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 17, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Can generalists thrive in this new world order? To answer this, let me go back to the McKinsey I saw a decade and a half ago, which was full of generalists. Even specialists were hired as generalist consultants. For example, it was common to see medical doctors on...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
I once hired a smart and confident-looking sales head in one of my previous companies. But when I showed him some basic data analysis/tracking that he had to do using Excel, he seemed uncomfortable. So I asked him point blank, “Do you know how to use...
