A leader must be able to select very practical people who will talk less and do more. This article about Lee Kuan Yew the great leader of Singapore and the lessons Nigerian youths can learn and practice. Selflessness and Dedication to the people. People did not have to work for their families’ well-being. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! From Third World to First book. Continue writing. This is of the reasons why Singapore succeeded as a nation. And zombies, Singa Quits: Reply from your taxpayer boss, Daily SG: 12 Nov 2012 | The Singapore Daily, Weekly Round Up: Week 46 (12 Nov – 16 Nov 2012) | The Singapore Daily, Not red vs blue? Singaporeans and their employers automatically contribute some money to this fund when they receive their salaries every month, and the money can be used to buy a house, for medical expenses, and, primarily, as a retirement fund. It’s a big book, but a fascinating read by a leader who kept careful notes and drew on unpublished papers to round out his recollections. This is why it is useful to study Singapore’s experience. | The Void Decker, Not red vs blue? Hence, they formulated policies which benefited Singaporeans. This is one of the problems we still have today in Nigeria, appointing people into offices they have little or no knowledge of. Nearly every country controlled by western economist suffered a similar fate. A quick win project is a small project that doesn’t need much money but at least will the smallest immediate need of the people. LKY understood that the welfare state is too expensive for developing countries. The founding fathers of Singapore are very honest people unlike Nigeria’s founding fathers. For more than three decades, Lee Kuan Yew has been praised and vilified in equal measure, and he has established himself as a force impossible to ignore in Asian and … A political memoir—and a playbook for how to start an improbably successful, postage-stamp nation. 8 Favorites . For example, though Singapore had signed a 100-year water agreement with Malaysia in 1961, they knew that Malaysia could threaten them by cutting out their water supply. After him came the First Four and all the others. BibTeX @MISC{Haentzschel_cultureand, author = {Carl Alexander Haentzschel}, title = {Culture and Communication News Flows in Singapore “From Third World to First”: The Development of Disseminating News Towards a “More Just and More Efficient Information Order”}, year = {}} Singapore’s founding fathers decided in the words of Rajaratnam that in: “In a multi-racial society, one soon learns that no one people has a monopoly of wisdom and that one’s own culture is not without flaws. Development cannot be achieved through big sweeping reforms alone. Small steps that have a huge impact on the everyday lives of people are necessary to ensure that progress happens in a meaningful way. The masterminds behind Singapore’s fine foreign policies was a guru in the person of Mr. S. Rajaratnam, the legendary Foreign Minister of Singapore. It also undermines productivity. The tenth lesson from the book is that Singapore’s government avoided populist measures. I will stand you a beer if you ever decide to revisit your old haunts in London. Soon you navigate through lanes of … The Ability to Set A Long Term Goal (Strategic Planning). You touch down at the island’s ultra-modern airport—routinely voted the world’s most efficient. The term “third world” has a deep history, dating back to the Cold War when the world was divided between Western capitalism and Soviet communism. When there is honesty in government, the citizens and the investors will trust and believe with understanding that government policies are meant to benefit the country, not to benefit the politicians. You had to juggle with several hostile fronts such as the Indonesian confrontation abroad, communists at home and north of the island as well as the pro-Malay supremacy groups in Malaysia. The great Female River crossed this land from north to south. to achieve. We noted by the 1970s that when governments undertook primary responsibility for the basic duties of the head of the family, the drive in people weakened. However, I understand why that had to be done and like Jack Bauer from one of my favourite TV series 24, you did what needed to be done because as you mentioned time and again in your book, you are a pragmatist and not an idealist and Singapore cannot survive on pure idealism. And the only way to win the hearts of the people is to do a quick win program. LKY had to make his crew members I mean national executives see the fact that they must look inward and by all means avoid calling for foreign aids. That is why the main language of instruction in Singapore schools is English. Lee was rather prolific, writing seven books in later life; From Third World to First is the second of his two-volume memoirs, covering the period from 1965 to the late 1990s (the book was published in 2000). The First World consisted of the U.S., Western Europe and their allies. Jack Finney (2 October 1911-16 November 1995) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and given the name John Finney. Because honesty is the most challenging. “Third World” remains the most common of the original designations, but its meaning has changed from “non-aligned” and become more of a blanket term for the developing world.