by Rajan Singh | Apr 21, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Early in my tenure at McKinsey, I once committed a terrifying blunder. In those days, every BlackBerry notification would make us stop all work and check our email. Superfast email response was fast becoming a religion. But one day, due to some technical glitch, my...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 20, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
I was racing a 2:30 am deadline to submit my Wharton MBA application in Round 1. Post midnight, in the frantic rush, as I was giving the final touches to my application, the Microsoft Word document crashed. When I tried recovering the changes, I messed up and lost all...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 19, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
On the top floor of my building, lived my friend and junior from IPS and IIT – Sunil Asnani. In the evenings, we would often hang out on the rooftop, talking about his plan to quit the IPS and do an MBA from a US business school. The plan sounded crazy —...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 18, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
For most of my life, I went to English-medium schools where nobody spoke English. However, from grades 1-4, I attended a government school in Bangalore where kids used English even for social conversations. That is the only real exposure I had to the language. Yet, it...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 17, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
In the first semester at IIT Kanpur, I noticed this guy whose class notes would just be half a page of tiny scrawl, scribbled with a ball-point refill. In the hostel, he would usually be playing cricket or doing bull sessions with friends. Clearly, not a recipe for...
