It is a much bigger thing than wanting to be in control and
power as the leaders have been used to for Singapore to stay
competitive of the economic global race.
From 1970s when result-oriented heavy-weight ministers like Dr. Goh
Keng Swee and Lim Kim San stepped aside to make way for new and
younger talents the system went through a big change.
The new and younger team became the technocrats leading all with
ideas and concepts rather than their own philosophical convictions
on how to compete and survive in a more technologically savvy
world.
Technocrats do not have much convictions how to get people level up
in entrepreneurship and business and technology start-ups as Acer
boss Stanley Shih has been telling his people - build products
wanted by the world and build international brand names.
Technocrats were too wary and did not stand up and convince the
older leaders of this ability to surge ahead on their own steam to
make change.
They ended up taking instructions and obeying wishes of the bigger
leaders who may be too conceptual about the whole system -
leadership and talents could not solve all problems.
New philosophy of competitions and growths and how to upgrade to
value-adding technology-savvy industries and create new start-ups
as Acer of Taiwan has done, is the real challenge awaiting the new
technocrats.
Singapore has not been climbing up the economic competitiveness
index since the 1870s. It was backsliding and people at the top who
are great wonders should know this fact and now quickly make amends
to technocrats as technocrats drawn from good boys in class are not
good enough.
New bohemoths are simply needed badly to run the new competitions -
with Korea, Taiwan, Finland, Denmark...Japan..