by Rajan Singh | Dec 7, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
During a taxi ride back from my office in New York City, the driver asked me, “So what do you do?” When I told him that I was a consultant, he asked, “IT consultant?” I hastily corrected him, “No, no… I am a strategy consultant.” In those days, IT or technology was...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 6, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
In a marketing class, our business school professor once told us – “The world doesn’t owe you anything just because you went to Wharton.” This is one lesson I have always cherished – we are not entitled to anything regardless of which college we went to or...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 5, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
A few years ago, in a South Bombay office complex, I saw a notice on a door – “Salesmen and interns not allowed.” It left me wondering, why are we so hostile to salesmen and interns? Why do we treat them as a nuisance? One thing to remember is that we all have been...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 4, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
When I was in the police force, the best leaders I worked with had one common quality – they were not bossy at all. Usually, when we think of ‘good leaders’, we imagine charismatic people with magnetic personalities. But the leaders I cherish were the ones who were...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 4, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
During my days as a consultant, I often found the first few days of a client engagement mortifying. In the initial meetings, the clients would bombard us with jargon and technical details that I struggled to understand. But I was too scared to clarify because I did...
