TR EMERITUS

An interesting but often ignored in the globalization debate is the story of Iceland. One of the most memorable reply to the question why Iceland didn’t fail as many had predicted came from former President of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimmson: “We were wise enough not to follow the traditional prevailing orthodoxies of the... 

Recently, I asked a voter who voted PAP and he said he dislike almost all the policies by PAP and the only reason he voted PAP is because he thinks oppositions are weak and he is afraid no one will clean his block. The article by Dr Chee recently, he commented, "Singaporeans have been conditioned into fearful of change." I reckoned... 

Lately I have been thinking about the nature of political leadership. What is the difference, I ask myself, between good leaders and great leaders and between the former and those regarded as average, ‘’Ok, can-do or so-so’’ leaders? I think we can all agree that good leaders are good managers. They are relatively hard-working,...