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Humble Leadership in Governance: The Singapore Story
That Singapore is offered here as a prime example of Humble Leadership may strike the reader as odd in that Singapore is often presented as an example of authoritarian dictatorship. Dictatorship and Humble Leadership seem categorically incompatible. However, the approach that the early leaders Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Keng Swee, and their colleagues took to building a modern city-state out of an economically declining colony illustrates two important points: first, that Humble Leadership does not mean soft or nice and, second, that Humble Leadership can be passed down through the organization to become a Level 2 culture throughout the government and the key economic institutions it creates. ...
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