by Rajan Singh | Apr 6, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
It was so unfair — we were all fit, thirty-something guys, pitched against a team that included senior people, including a 70-year old. This friendly football match during a company offsite, in my last job, was going to be a no-contest. And it was. We were...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 5, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
I write almost every day, except on Sundays. Some days, the writing flows effortlessly, like water. Ideas just snap-fit into words. Other days, it is like you are dragging a dead body. And yet, the key is to accept both experiences with equanimity. If you are able to...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 4, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
When I left the Civil Services to join an MBA program, I found people looking down on technical knowledge as something low-value, meant for the ‘junior guys.’ The senior folks were the ones supposedly creating real value because they could speed-dial an Ambani or a...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 3, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
At Wharton, in Prof Jeremey Siegel’s class, we had no place to sit for the first 10 minutes since people would crowd for his ‘daily market updates’. He was a rockstar professor but had one quirk — to keep his teaching material exclusive, he would give his course...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 31, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
On a hillock in the jungles of Tripura, we were assigned small huts for our stay in the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) camp. This was during the IPS training when we were attached to our paramilitary forces for first-hand exposure to counter-insurgency...
