Hello all. These days, Singapore continues to amaze me with its strategic thinking and actions. I watched an interview with Gan Kim Yong, Deputy PM, who sat with 3 younger interviewers, answering everything from his own personal life and work. Quite fun loei ka.
Here are my key takeaways:
1. Being authentic to express feelings genuinely makes it so pleasant for the interview to get started and continue smoothly (both with fun and essence).
DPM was asked how he was approached to take up this position, He said that PM Lawrence Wong said he would call him some time. DPM was kind of nervous so he went into his email communication and listed down what went wrong to be ready for the call. The PM was asking him about the position and it was unexpected. He called his wife to ask her and got the same unexpected sound. The question was obvious about the culture and family relationship na ka.
I went back to learn more about his profile and saw that he's been through important positions especially Health Minister during COVID time ka.
Looking back at our country, my questions relate to politicians' competence and comfort to be interviewed in a less formal setting.
2. Keep things simple and communicate well!
DPM stressed the importance of communication to enable the public to understand and cooperate. He said sometimes, Singapore tends to have complicated plans and it's tough to send the messages across. It won't be perfect but they will accept the mistakes.
During the COVID time, it was very stressful and it was best to do it upfront with honest and transparent information sharing. He added that the current tariff issue has distanced the world from rule-based to have a new norm for SG to go forward.
If we only focus on our COVID challenges, we sure did real well and there could be so many lessons learned to capture for future management. I also thought of late Governor handling the หมูป่า rescue. Yet, for the tariff, I feel the public has been left to be more in the dark.
3. Confidence in strong fundamentals helps ease challenges.
When he was asked to give one most challenging incident he could think of right away. He shared a story when hackers attacked one hospital when things had to go manual before imposing it on all hospitals in the country. He was under deep stress and called the hospital about how to handle it if it went manual to learn that the director assured him she was ready. He then got the approval from the PM to take action. It went quite ok and he appreciated the people involved for their readiness and the assurance given to him, leading him to take the risk successfully.
What could be expected in our Thai context ka?
4. Space technology means more than going to space!
Some people could be doubtful why a very small country like Singapore invests a lot on space technology. He shares that the main objectives are to go after its technologies and learn about its supply chains in the space sector as well as to observe the earth for climate change issues and prediction of possible natural disasters.
I thought of some earlier communication about our efforts to go to the moon. Needed to emphasize on some concrete and impactful benefits na ka.
Any thoughts after reading this mai ka? How I wish we had such a highly capable leader and team administration ka!
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