by Rajan Singh | Dec 18, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
These days, every other person seems to have ADHD. I am not a psychiatrist but ADHD is a real medical condition that requires proper therapy and treatment. It should not be casually bandied around, just as a stand-in for high degree of distractedness. What if some...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 17, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
During my consulting days, we had project reviews every 2-3 days. And every review felt like a final exam — you wanted to blow the audience away with your presentation! But sometimes, you get stuck — it could be due to insufficient data, a hard problem, or...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 16, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Everybody says, “Embrace failure.” Sounds such bullshit, right? But here is the thing that we don’t talk about. There are two kinds of failure: Type 1 failure: This is like you jumping from a plane and the parachute fails to open — this failure...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 15, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
In my ‘Negotiations’ course at Wharton, we had a live negotiation exercise, where I had to sell a boat (or something like that) to another student. And while the ‘boat sale’ was fake, the impact on your grades was real since your performance on...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 12, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
When I was working with a private equity fund, some of the companies we invested in were performing poorly. So what was our response? We would start doing monthly ‘performance review’ calls to put pressure on the management to act faster and smarter. And...
