Originally posted by airgrinder:
Nope.
But if you're a Headhunter looking for a CEO to head an MNC, will u
pick one who had no experience, no track record, the most just
perhaps somebody running a $500K business?
By your standard, Bill Gates would
never have survived an interview, let alone being successful with
his software development.
Neither will Steve Jobs have the opportunity to create Apple in the
early days, and having a second shot at it after having left
Apple.
There is a difference in the greatness and daring to give
opportunities to the untried that exist between the USA and
Singapore.
If you're an infantry PC leading a platoon to fulfill an objective
in hostile areas. Would you pick troops who had fought for life and
limp and survived? Or would you pick soldiers who had only fired
rounds at a 100metres target board?
I see what you're saying. But if there no creditable and
experienced opposition who can show they can take over, then
there's no point in any discussion.
How are veterans to come about, if
all newbies are never to be tested, or given a chance to lose a
life or a limb ?
Which MAN has any experience to make a space flight or land on the
moon when the call was made ?
What expertise or experience did Lim Yew Hock, Ong Eng Guan or
David Marshall or LKY bring when they first step into the seat of
Government when each was elected into Office ?
All had zilch experience, and we gave them a shot at it.
The First World Countries did not happen to be in the First World
by any quirk of natural order of Life, but they gave each and
everyone in their Society the Opportunity to be listened, to be
believed, and to take a collective risk for a better future.
No one can ever progress if we are AVERSE TO RISK - a remark that
even LKY and his Ministers have often chided Singaporeans.
Yet, they will qualify that Political Risk is a gamble not to be
frivolous with.
Life is a calculated risk in decisions to be made at every turn,
and change to be put forth when time and circumstance demand
change.
We cannot be paralyzed by fear of the unknown.
Are we truly a First World Country ?
Can Singapore be a Cosmopolitan City like New York, London, Paris,
or even Barcelona ?
We maybe a cosmopolitan city insofar as racial and cultural mix,
but in terms of vibrancy or the X-Factor, Singapore can never
achieved the similar status that these other cities can
enjoy.
Not as long as this nanny state exist that encourages Citizens to
fear for the Future, and that the Citizens are untalented, and
incapable of deciding their own Political Fate.
