by Rajan Singh | Mar 19, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
To be a good manager, you need to do two seemingly contradictory things: 1. Hand-hold people, guide them, and occasionally, even show them how to do their job. 2. Give people the freedom to do their job, without unnecessarily meddling or imposing your own ideas about...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 18, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts, Uncategorized
Can you guess what terrifies Indian civil servants the most? Getting a posting with no work to do. And sadly, a lot of these positions do exist. But why would people want to work more for the same salary? Partly, it could be the sense of importance and...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 17, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts, Uncategorized
I was once talking to a public market investor who seemed very hesitant to reveal the stocks he had invested in, as if he was holding some trade secret or I could somehow derail his investments. On the other hand, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala used to reportedly ask people to...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 16, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts, Uncategorized
You give a talk and the auditorium claps, but one guy boos you loudly. Or you write a LinkedIn post and get 99 positive comments, but one guy calls you scum. Will you feel 99% positive, and 1% negative? No. You will be 100% infuriated — that one negative...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 13, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
My best managers — be it in the Indian Police Service or at McKinsey — were not the charismatic ones with swagger or bravado. Instead their biggest quality was this: In a crisis, when things became rough, they remained calm — no freaking out, no rude...
