by Rajan Singh | Apr 8, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
A friend of mine was once interning with a major Wall Street bank. One day, on a Friday evening, his boss asked him to make a presentation and share it by Sunday, ensuring that his weekend was ruined. My friend did not understand the urgency but there was little he...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 7, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Conventional wisdom says: Prioritize tasks that are urgent AND important. No — this advice isn’t good enough. If something is urgent and important, it is called ‘firefighting.’ And firefighting destroys peace of mind. So you should be asking:...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 4, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
About 20 years back, I stopped watching TV. It all started with this addiction to TV I had started developing in the early 2000s, when I would mindlessly switch on the TV after a stressful day at work. Soon, I started worrying about missing this or that episode, or...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 3, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Long ago, a friend who took the NDA/military career route was telling me about the bayonet charge routine in the army. In a bayonet charge, you run towards and attack an enemy bunker typically defended by a machine gun firing 10 bullets per second. What are the odds...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 2, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Whenever consultants want to say something, they always have ‘three things.’ And we mock them for that 🙂 But if you want to communicate well, there is some real science here — the science of working memory. It turns out that our working memory can...
