by Rajan Singh | Feb 12, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
One of my past bosses had a very clear metric to evaluate your commitment – how long you sat in the office at night. In fact, he himself used to sit till 9 pm every day. A very hard-working guy he was. Except that when he was transferred out, his successor found that...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 9, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
When I graduated from IIT in 1995, I was expecting to soon figure out my life and my career, and quickly ‘settle down’. I then joined the Indian Police Service, the ultimate platform for ‘settling down’. It was such a stable and predictable job...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 8, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
I often feel that I wasted my four years at IIT. But I sometimes wonder if it was not a total waste. In many of the courses I did, the math was so dense that you had no idea what was going on. For 90% of the semester, I would just be going through the motions like a...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 7, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
Recently, I was talking to a friend in the gym, who looks fabulously fit, having shed 12 kgs of flab. And here is what he said: ‘Earlier, I really struggled to eat healthy. But now that I have started working out, I automatically eat healthier and drink more water –...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 6, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
I had a boss in the Indian Police Service, who played safe all his life – he never took a bold stand, nor did he ever uphold any principles. His only goal was to please his bosses and take the easy way out. Nobody respected him – I certainly did not. Years ago, when I...
