by Rajan Singh | Aug 9, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
During my stint with a private equity fund, I once got into a hot debate with a colleague about a loss-making company we owned. He was suggesting that this company launch a new product line. I asked him, “Why launch one more product line when the company is already...
by Rajan Singh | Aug 8, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Once a good friend of mine at McKinsey was assigned a young analyst for his team. For some reason, my friend was quite unhappy with the analyst’s performance. One day, while I was sitting in his room, I overheard him giving feedback to the analyst. He finally said,...
by Rajan Singh | Aug 7, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Today I am going to give you two examinations, one in Trigonometry and another on Honesty. I hope you will pass them both, but if you must fail one, let it be Trigonometry, for there are many good people in this world today who cannot pass an examination in...
by Rajan Singh | Aug 4, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
During my stint in the IPS, I had to often attend send-off functions for retiring police officers. And the curious thing was that people always found good things to say about the retiree — even when he was totally rotten. There was one officer who rose through...
by Rajan Singh | Aug 3, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
I learned the secret of peak performance from a small-time violin teacher in Kochi city. We hired this teacher for my daughter, whose violin practice was going nowhere — she went to many violin teachers but quit after a few practice sessions when there was no...
