by Rajan Singh | Jun 21, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
It was my most amazing project at McKinsey. And yet, just when things were looking great, they went downhill. Here is what happened. This was the kind of project consulting firms talk about in their advertisement brochures — we were advising the CEO and the...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 20, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
On the National Police Academy parade ground, our assistant drill instructor, head constable Ram Singh, would bark at us like he was General Patton. And even a millisecond delay in obeying his command would invite his rage, and the drill sequence would start all over...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 19, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Five years into my first job with the Indian Police Service, I was unsure what to do next — something had changed. In the beginning, everything was just so exciting — nothing like anything I had done earlier. After spending years doing crazy math in the...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 16, 2023 | 2023, Newsletter
At age 10, my daughter started taking swimming lessons with a bunch of other kids. But along with those kids in the pool, there was also a grown-up man taking swimming lessons. When I saw him, I smirked and thought, “What is this guy doing here?” – as if he was...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 16, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Panwali was going to be our Waterloo, we were warned. This was a part of the 9-day trek during our Civil Services training that included a near-vertical climb of 2 km in the Panwali mountain range. In the words of our Physical Training Instructor, “Panwali ki chadhai,...
