“People who take credit in good times and blame external forces in bad times do not deserve to lead.” ~ Management guru, Jim Collins When times are good, the elite PAP ministers with helicopter vision in Singapore claim they can see further, analyse deeper than lesser mortals, so they should be paid an outrageous amount… Read More: Does Singapore have the right people? »
First, Singaporeans are labelled quitters and whiners. Now, it appears that the majority of us are lesser mortals. “Maybe it made lesser mortals envious and they thought maybe he was a bit boastful. Would people have taken offence if his wife (a senior investment counsellor at a bank) had paid for everything?” ~ PAP MP… Read More: So now we’re lesser mortals? »
Only in the overpaid Singapore civil service do we have an immediate superior (Peter Ho) eat humble pie on behalf of his subordinate (Tan Yong Soon) for blowing taxpayers’ money on a personal extravagance and further rubbed salt into the wound by highlighting that he could have shirked work longer than five weeks if he… Read More: Cooking up a perfect storm »
It’s the start of the new year and given the current economic climate, excesses (abundance) seem to be the call of the day. But not when your name is John Thain. The former Merrill Lynch chief executive reportedly spent US$1.2 million on his office renovation, of which US$87,784 went on a rug, US$68,179 on a… Read More: Corporate excesses »
WLL – that’s the acronymn for a favourite Singaporean expression: wait long long (or dang gu gu in Hokkien). ANALysts have been harping about converged devices for as long as I can remember, many of them focusing on how devices will converge – PDA and mobile phone; mobile phone and MP3 player; mobile phone and… Read More: Converged devices? WLL! »
Here’s how a change of word can alter the nuance of a sentence. In an Economist Intelligent Unit briefing titled “Cracking down on dissent“, there is this sentence: With the Chinese economy facing the worst slowdown in two decades, paranoia about massive social unrest is mushrooming among Chinese leaders. The above sentence is obviously written… Read More: Biased writing »