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...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 20, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
On the National Police Academy parade ground, our assistant drill instructor, head constable Ram Singh, would bark at us like he was General Patton. And even a millisecond delay in obeying his command would invite his rage, and the drill sequence would start all over...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 19, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Five years into my first job with the Indian Police Service, I was unsure what to do next — something had changed. In the beginning, everything was just so exciting — nothing like anything I had done earlier. After spending years doing crazy math in the...
