Singapore is a city-state small in size but huge in ambition and strategic sophistication. From
founding new universities (and multiple
partnerings with MIT) and
building stunning greenscrapers and playing a key
role as crossroads in the
ASEAN community and between India, China, Australia+NZ and in the
Commonwealth, this is a key country. Several years ago, I was especially impressed with
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story, the reflections of founding leader
Lee Kuan Yew. And see here the current Prime Minister
Lee Hsien Loong on Charlie Rose this past week, for a conversation which included...
"The whole of our system is founded on a basic concept of meritocracy; we built up our institutions so that you have a government which people can trust and is competent; we have no safety net and we can always fail if we get it wrong; we’ve got to be extraordinary!"
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