by Rajan Singh | Oct 10, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
In early 2009, I attended a townhall at McKinsey. This was just a few months after Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy, and the US was still in the midst of a horrible recession. The partners running the meeting assured us that all was well – in fact, McKinsey did not lay off...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 9, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
In the 2nd year of my MBA at Wharton, I asked a finance professor for advice on landing a job with a private equity fund. When he learned that I had only worked as a cop, he told me bluntly – “With your background, it will be very difficult.” I was dejected but since...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 6, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Once, while driving in Trivandrum City, I saw a shop with a big banner: ‘Margin-free shop’. Presumably, they don’t keep any profit margin. On seeing that, you almost get the feeling that ‘profit’ is a dirty word. In fact, my daughter even...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 5, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Yesterday, I picked up a small rock lying on the road, and it is now sitting on my table. How much will you pay for it? Probably nothing. But what if you believed that someone else would pay 20 rupees for that rock? Now, you might happily shell out 10 rupees. So that...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 4, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
From the many 180 degree turns I have made in my career, the one big lesson I have learned is this: Life is to be experienced, not optimized. Life has no objective function to be maximized – it is not a calculus problem. It doesn’t have a destination that we need to...
