by Rajan Singh | Sep 22, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
During my policing career, when interacting with very poor people, I would often notice an attitude of helplessness and resignation. Life had probably battered them so much that they felt that nothing they did mattered. Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist, called...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 19, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
A partner at McKinsey once told me about a massive cost-cutting project at a company that used to operate very lavishly. For example, on every floor, this company had multiple large printers. Had you asked, the staff would have probably insisted that every printer was...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 18, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
8 months after trying out another gym, I went back to my old gym recently. And I saw a familiar-looking guy, who used to be overweight and flabby. But now, he seemed quite fit — most of his excess weight, including a prominent double chin, was totally gone! The...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 17, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
When you first hold a rifle, shooting seems so easy — just align the gun’s foresight, backsight, and the target, and pull the trigger. But there is a challenge! Your eye is like a camera that can focus only at one distance at a time. So when you focus your...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 16, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
A few years ago, I was at IIT Kanpur to give a talk. And the speaker before me was a brilliant entrepreneur, who had built a billion-dollar company from scratch, AFTER his retirement. And while this gentleman was talking, the students started clapping — not...