by Rajan Singh | May 13, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
My first mentor at McKinsey gave me this feedback: “Everything else is fine, but you need to be more comfortable with ambiguity.” I don’t know what my team had told him, but as engineers, we are trained to solve precise problems, with irrefutable...
by Rajan Singh | May 11, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Two-thirds of the companies I applied to for an internship during my MBA, did not even shortlist me for an interview. I graduated in 2007, at the peak of a booming economy, from a reasonably reputed B-School. Logically, finding a job should have been a cakewalk. Yet,...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 27, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
In uncertain times amid looming job losses, you can fall back on ONLY three things: your skills, your brand, and your network. Everything else can vanish overnight — especially your business card. Then how does one navigate this world? Here is a way to think...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 24, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
In my past life, when I routinely worked 12-16 hour days, I had to occasionally stop work at 7 pm because of some contingency (e.g., doctor’s appointment). But surprisingly, even when I worked 25% fewer hours, my work wasn’t really affected — I...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 20, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
When I did my first startup, just updating my LinkedIn profile to “Founder, XYZ” got me tons of congratulatory messages. But soon, I realized that all that celebration was premature. Because the real grind comes next: building the product. But once the...
