Good leaders manage with what they have. Desmond Kuek wants to change SMRT team

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Mr Kuek believes changes are needed but has had little time to articulate his "big picture" strategy and that his longer-term strategy will include a management re-shuffle, one that will see new faces in the top team.

"I need to strengthen the team of people working with me to better meet the wider spectrum of operational and capability issues," he said.

Naive leadership at its very best. No time, because holiday was priority over the job, barely two months into it. Demoralises senior staff with unspoken criticism of their performance, in public, without even assessing whether it was system or personnel failure.

Meantime, the Board (whose fees went up 970% in eleven years) have maintained a saintly silence, even as the Transport Minister has weighed in.

 

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Meantime, the Board (whose fees went up 970% in eleven years) have maintained a saintly silence, even as the Transport Minister has weighed in.

for a long time me always thought percentages are only up to a hundred, anything more than that, we say multiple folds?

 

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Mr Kuek believes changes are needed but has had little time to articulate his "big picture" strategy and that his longer-term strategy will include a management re-shuffle, one that will see new faces in the top team.

"I need to strengthen the team of people working with me to better meet the wider spectrum of operational and capability issues," he said.

Naive leadership at its very best. No time, because holiday was priority over the job, barely two months into it. Demoralises senior staff with unspoken criticism of their performance, in public, without even assessing whether it was system or personnel failure.

Meantime, the Board (whose fees went up 970% in eleven years) have maintained a saintly silence, even as the Transport Minister has weighed in.

If you change the Board members, everything will fall into place neatly. Otherwise, no amount of staff reshuflling will cover the holes in the system - not in Kuek's era or his subsequent successors in the future. Trust me, SMRT's problems are so deep rooted that you either nationalised it or kick the board out of the scene.