by Rajan Singh | Feb 17, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Can generalists thrive in this new world order? To answer this, let me go back to the McKinsey I saw a decade and a half ago, which was full of generalists. Even specialists were hired as generalist consultants. For example, it was common to see medical doctors on...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
I once hired a smart and confident-looking sales head in one of my previous companies. But when I showed him some basic data analysis/tracking that he had to do using Excel, he seemed uncomfortable. So I asked him point blank, “Do you know how to use...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 13, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Since the who’s who of the corporate world is singing praises about hard work, I want to put on record that I agree with them 100%. But the problem is that we immediately translate ‘hard work’ into 84 hours, 96 hours, or 120 hours a week. So before...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 12, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
One of my IIT professors had a stellar academic reputation. But after he quit/retired, he abandoned academic rigour and started making random claims. He would inflate mediocre work using jargon and began behaving like a quack. And the reason was that he moved into...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 11, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
During my MBA, a college friend visited us in Philadelphia. And during our conversation, I asked him about his career plans. But he had no ‘plans’ — he was happy with his life, and I couldn’t understand how that was possible! After an IIT...
