by Rajan Singh | Mar 25, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Sensing an opportunity created by Karnataka’s self-goal (the proposed reservation for locals), Kerala’s Industries minister lost no time in inviting businesses to move to Kerala. And it was a truly heartening to hear that but here is a backstory. 25 years...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 24, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
A friend, who used to be a partner at McKinsey, occasionally conducts a training exercise for team effectiveness in which one person has to perform a complicated physical task blindfolded. Everybody else on the team is given some role (e.g., advising the...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 23, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
I was once listening to a meditation audiobook by Joseph Goldstein, in which he recounted the story of a guy who had moved into a new house where he could hear beautiful bird sounds coming from the basement. And it pleased him no end. But later, he realized that the...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 20, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
During my MBA, an investment bank was visiting the campus for a pre-placement talk. After the talk, students were mobbing the visiting bankers, trying to impress them with earnest-sounding questions. So one of them asked, “What makes your bank different?”...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 19, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
To be a good manager, you need to do two seemingly contradictory things: 1. Hand-hold people, guide them, and occasionally, even show them how to do their job. 2. Give people the freedom to do their job, without unnecessarily meddling or imposing your own ideas about...
