by Rajan Singh | Jun 26, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Growing up, when I was facing my life’s first major exam (IITJEE), I was virtually biting my nails. I would often ponder, “What if I don’t make it? Would I have any future?” We were not an affluent family. Nobody in our family had been to college — my sister and...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 23, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
My de-facto co-founder at HabitStrong, Nisha Salim, is brilliant but often runs into a problem — she does not have a degree from any tier-1 college. She has been way better than any pedigreed folks we have hired from IIT/IIM etc., but investors have often been...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 22, 2023 | Stress, Anxiety, Depression
Just the other day, I had to send an important email at work which contained some critical sales numbers and analysis. Before sending it out, I got into a mild state of anxiety, wondering if I had gotten everything just right. Had I made an error in the numbers? Had I...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 22, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
When starting my MBA at Wharton, I kept telling myself, “Don’t ruin it again. This is the last chance.” Earlier, I had ruined my 4 years at IIT — bunking classes, always falling behind, cramming before exams to barely get a passing grade. But this time, the...
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...
