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19-10-2014, 09:00 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
new found humility from gerogie boy after being voted out. this is exactly what the PAP needs. a good hard kick up the ass. maybe one in the balls too.
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4. Advice on how the Singapore public service can adapt to changes
“You must insert yourself into the community, into the problem…in order to understand it holistically and to effect change from within. You cannot be a bureaucrat sitting on high, reading papers, doing statistical analysis, prescribing solutions. The Singapore civil service is probably the best administration in the world today and the reason why the LKY school has been able to grow so rapidly in the last ten years is because of the story of Singapore.
But given the nature of the world today, the challenge of technology and the digital revolution we must do it even more and insert ourselves into the daily lives of Singaporeans… It is very important that those who are in charge do not lead and live separate lives, and to the extent that we can be one community, we will be a strong society.”
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Casting his eye on recent developments, he assessed the world to be in a period of momentous change, brought on by the digital revolution.
He said: "This transition is a big one, almost as dramatic as when human society shifted from a nomadic way of life to settled agricultural society, (and) settled agricultural society in the feudal world (to an) industrialised (society).
"The transition will not be easy because as in all such transitions it has to take place at all levels of geopolitics, of geoeconomics, religious responses, family structures, extended tribal networks. All come under the same challenge. No one is spared."
But to survive, and avoid falling into chaos, people would have to recognise that the big shifts are sparked by social media and information technology, and adjust accordingly, he said.
For those hoping to make the change, Mr Yeo offered two principles: one, demassification and realising that leaders can no longer dictate from on high and two, learning from one another, especially the young.
Citing his own experience, Mr Yeo said he has been learning from his colleagues at Kerry Logistics, which he chairs, since leaving politics in 2011.
"You have to depend on others. And so I go around and I play the student, I ask questions, I ask for help. I ask how I can be helpful...You create an energy field where there are multiple nodes of activity and you yourself constitutes only one node, hopefully a node which will grow in importance," he said.
He noted, though, that bigger institutions may find it more difficult to "dismantle it's core architecture to adjust to the new reality.''
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?192287-new-found-humility-of-George-Yeo&goto=newpost).
new found humility from gerogie boy after being voted out. this is exactly what the PAP needs. a good hard kick up the ass. maybe one in the balls too.
...
4. Advice on how the Singapore public service can adapt to changes
“You must insert yourself into the community, into the problem…in order to understand it holistically and to effect change from within. You cannot be a bureaucrat sitting on high, reading papers, doing statistical analysis, prescribing solutions. The Singapore civil service is probably the best administration in the world today and the reason why the LKY school has been able to grow so rapidly in the last ten years is because of the story of Singapore.
But given the nature of the world today, the challenge of technology and the digital revolution we must do it even more and insert ourselves into the daily lives of Singaporeans… It is very important that those who are in charge do not lead and live separate lives, and to the extent that we can be one community, we will be a strong society.”
... ...
Casting his eye on recent developments, he assessed the world to be in a period of momentous change, brought on by the digital revolution.
He said: "This transition is a big one, almost as dramatic as when human society shifted from a nomadic way of life to settled agricultural society, (and) settled agricultural society in the feudal world (to an) industrialised (society).
"The transition will not be easy because as in all such transitions it has to take place at all levels of geopolitics, of geoeconomics, religious responses, family structures, extended tribal networks. All come under the same challenge. No one is spared."
But to survive, and avoid falling into chaos, people would have to recognise that the big shifts are sparked by social media and information technology, and adjust accordingly, he said.
For those hoping to make the change, Mr Yeo offered two principles: one, demassification and realising that leaders can no longer dictate from on high and two, learning from one another, especially the young.
Citing his own experience, Mr Yeo said he has been learning from his colleagues at Kerry Logistics, which he chairs, since leaving politics in 2011.
"You have to depend on others. And so I go around and I play the student, I ask questions, I ask for help. I ask how I can be helpful...You create an energy field where there are multiple nodes of activity and you yourself constitutes only one node, hopefully a node which will grow in importance," he said.
He noted, though, that bigger institutions may find it more difficult to "dismantle it's core architecture to adjust to the new reality.''
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?192287-new-found-humility-of-George-Yeo&goto=newpost).