此书摘本创建于：2017-06-17
From Third World to First, The Singapore Story
He will go down in history as one of Asia's most famous (or infamous) statesmen. "Th …… [ 展开全部 ]
- 作者：Kuan Yew Lee
- 出版社：Singapore Press Holdings
- 定价：S$37.45
- ISBN：9789812049841
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Will Singapore the independent city-state disappear? The island of Singapore will not, but thesovereign nation it has become, able to make its way and play its role
in the world, could vanish非常理性了 -
I learnt to ignore criticism and advice from experts and quasiexperts, especially academics in the social and political sciences. Theyhave pet theories on how a society should develop to approximate their
ideal, especially how poverty should be reduced and welfare extendedI always tried to be correct, not politically correct. -
We learnt on the job and learnt quickly. If there was one formulafor our success, it was that we were constantly studying how to makethings work, or how to make them work better. I was never a prisonerof any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test Iapplied to every theory or scheme was, would it work? This was thegolden thread that ran through my years in office. If it did not work, orthe results were poor, I did not waste more time and resources on it. Ialmost never made the same mistake twice, and I tried to learn from themistakes others had made.绝不是理论的囚徒。
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Shell..concentrated on what they termed a man's "currently estimated potential" . This was determined by three qualities- a person's power of analysis, his imagination and his sense of reality. Together they made up an over-arching attributes Shell called "helicopter quality", the ability to see facts or problems in a larger context and to identify and zoom in on critical details.helicopter quality
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Our greatest task was to find the people to replace my ageing ministers and myself.it should be the greatest task of CEO
