by Rajan Singh | Jun 6, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Every leadership training I have been through, be it for the Indian Police Service or at McKinsey, was missing a critical element — training people how to dissent. Without the ability to dissent, you only have yes-men (or yes-women), not leaders. In the...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 5, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
We love rags-to-riches stories. That is why every social platform is full of them. And they make us wonder — how come everybody gets lucky except me? The reason is that stories other than rags-to-riches are not considered stories! They don’t motivate...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 4, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
About a year ago during lunch, my colleague Ayisha said, “Whenever I want to learn something, I search online and find so many books that I get overwhelmed and never start.” To escape this trap of plenty, become aware of the following fallacies: Fallacy 1:...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 3, 2025 | 2025, Newsletter
When I was at IIT, our superhuman willpower was tested every day – in the dining halls of our mess. Every afternoon, the mess workers would clang down these giant vessels of rice on the table. Inside would be sitting big lumps of rice that had to be hammered with a...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 3, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Overcoming digital addictions is NOT about giving up your phone. If it were, the solution would be straightforward — throw away your smartphone and buy a feature phone. But that totally misses the point. Our smartphone is an essential part of our life. However,...
