by Rajan Singh | Apr 13, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
When I was a cop, everybody else told us how to manage the city traffic better. Now that I am an entrepreneur, VCs seem to know exactly how entrepreneurs should scale their businesses. 😊 And lest it sound accusatory, let me confess this — when I was an investor,...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 10, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
If you assign a task to my colleague Saranya, there is one thing you will never hear from her: “It was not my fault.” She takes such complete ownership that she will either get it done or get back to you if there is an insurmountable obstacle. In contrast,...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
My friend Vinod Thomas once told me a story of three bullets. When he was going through Indian Police Service training, his class was exposed to a lot of firearms training but many were still mediocre shooters. Then they were sent to Punjab Police Academy in Phillaur...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
About a decade ago, I moved back to Trivandrum, where I once served in the police force. And off and on, I run into policemen who had served under me. Almost all the time, I find that the policemen remember their interactions with me very fondly, even when I...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
When I was 35, I got assigned to a project at McKinsey where my manager was a 28-year-old. He did not have an MBA and had joined straight after undergrad (from Princeton). I was worried that he would be immature and we may have a difficult relationship. Instead, he...
