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Diversity vital for survival'
Diversity is a survival strategy. How do we know what is the industry or sector that will carry us forward into the future? When you cannot calibrate so precisely, you have to do one of two things. One is to have a portfolio of tools in society. People with different talents and skill sets ready to come forward to serve. The other is to equip your people with fungible skills, but that is very difficult.
Some people ask: Who is going to be the next PM? That is the wrong question to ask. The correct question is: Look at your leadership. Does it have the diversity (to throw up someone with the skills to meet any circumstance)? And when that skill set is called upon, that person must rally the rest of the people to come forward to serve....
Whatever the circumstance, we must have the diversity. Winston Churchill - he was a superb wartime leader, but a bad politician. Apply the correct talent to the correct time. At the end of the day, each of us is individually dispensable, but we must have resilience as a country.'
MAJOR-GENERAL (NS) CHAN CHUN SING, on the fourth prime minister
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_686715.html
Diversity is a survival strategy. How do we know what is the industry or sector that will carry us forward into the future? When you cannot calibrate so precisely, you have to do one of two things. One is to have a portfolio of tools in society. People with different talents and skill sets ready to come forward to serve. The other is to equip your people with fungible skills, but that is very difficult.
Some people ask: Who is going to be the next PM? That is the wrong question to ask. The correct question is: Look at your leadership. Does it have the diversity (to throw up someone with the skills to meet any circumstance)? And when that skill set is called upon, that person must rally the rest of the people to come forward to serve....
Whatever the circumstance, we must have the diversity. Winston Churchill - he was a superb wartime leader, but a bad politician. Apply the correct talent to the correct time. At the end of the day, each of us is individually dispensable, but we must have resilience as a country.'
MAJOR-GENERAL (NS) CHAN CHUN SING, on the fourth prime minister
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_686715.html
