by Rajan Singh | Nov 13, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
I have had three pretty different careers, but every single time I realised one thing — there is no free lunch. In my first job with the civil services, everything was secure and predictable. The government gave me all the resources, legal authority, firepower,...
by Rajan Singh | Nov 12, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
A few weeks ago, I called a former boss of mine (the then Director General of Police, Kerala) to wish him a happy new year — he is nearing 80 and is not keeping very good health. This officer was the most draconian disciplinarian to have headed Kerala police. In...
by Rajan Singh | Nov 11, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
In my startup journey, I learned more from one particular 5-minute video than from dozens of books and podcasts — this video is that of Dropbox’s founder Drew Houston. When Drew was fundraising for Dropbox, he met a VC, who asked, “There are already...
by Rajan Singh | Nov 10, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
A colleague of mine at McKinsey used to once work at Capital One, an extremely data-driven company. It was understandable that a fintech company would love data but even their senior management took decisions off spreadsheets. And sometimes, it led them in the wrong...
by Rajan Singh | Nov 7, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
One of the common procrastination tactics is to become busy doing something else – we want to do anything other than the task we are trying to avoid. Here is a tactic to handle such procrastination. First, assign some time to work on the task. Second, resolve that if...
