SM Goh's "Lion vs Sheep"
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SM Goh stresses importance of leadership for a country's economic devt
By S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 16 January 2010 2226 hrsSINGAPORE: There is a relationship between a country's leadership and how its economy performs, says Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong.
Addressing graduates of the first batch of youth leaders from a leadership programme in his Marine Parade GRC, Mr Goh says it is important to have good leaders in four sectors of the country - political, public service, business sector and the people sector.
Twenty-four youths from the Marine Parade GRC on Saturday became the pioneer batch to graduate from the NextGen Leadership Programme organised by the Marine Parade Leadership Foundation.
The seven-month programme equips the youths with interpersonal and leadership skills for community service. During the programme, the youth leaders had the opportunity to travel to Tanjung Pinang to help the residents with development programmes.
The youth leaders also took part in several Meet-the-People sessions with the Members of Parliament of Marine Parade GRC.
Ng Pei Ling, a graduate of NextGen Leadership Programme, said: "It allows me to see things from the government's perspective and I realise that actually there are a lot of things that come into play when settling things."
Prasanth Selvam, another graduate of NextGen Leadership Programme, said: "I learnt that Singaporeans can actually be very petty with their requests, (like asking for the waiving of traffic summons). The thing is that you made the mistake and you have to pay for it. Some of the requests are very genuine."
Mr Goh was impressed with the work of the youth leaders. He said their involvement reminded him of an ancient saying on the importance of leadership.
Mr Goh said: "(The ancient saying is) 'an army of sheep led by a lion is stronger than an army of lions led by a sheep'.
"In other words, leadership is critical in battles; the leadership qualities, the courage and the ability and getting the team to follow you is crucial."
And Mr Goh said that for a country to succeed, good leadership is critical in four areas - political, public service, business sector and the people sector.
"In a country, of course, leadership is important. In a battle it is crucial, in peacetime (it is important) in terms of generating economic growth," he said.
"If you track the performance of a country in the last 30 years, you will come to the conclusion that there is a co-relationship between the leadership of a country and economic performance of the country," he added.
"The better the leadership, the better the government, more enlightened, more visionary. The more honest the government, the better the economic performance."
However, Mr Goh hopes more can be done in the people sector, especially in grooming leaders in the volunteer sector.
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False analogy. Logically, an army of lions would triumph over an army of sheep, regardless of whatever animal that is leading the sheep.
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he can fuck the lion n da ship in spore for all i care!
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I think what he means is that army of Lions (all want to be a leaders, fighting erupt internally), army of sheeps, 1 lion (all obey orders from 1 lion).
Means 1 lion (PAP), we locals are (SHEEPS).
Tio bo?
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a classic oxymoron...an army of sheep will be eaten by the lion...lol
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maybe he should just keep alsation wolf dogs...but then why didnt he keep them???for starters they are obedient but cant drink dogs milk or eat dog meat.so he chose a herd of sheeps instead of obedient alsatian dogs.sheeps can be eaten n enjoyed in some parts of werld:)
think he needs sheep to eat them...mainly.so when sheep mates n produce children,,,thats good fer lion....more meat to the grinder!!!
so only person would be the lion.....the dogs consume sheep meat too and dont taste nice.in order to have lion dead....all sheeps must vanish!
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What hidden agenda does the sickening chok tong has????? Getting more youth on their side to go against singaporeans? getting more youth on their side to brainwash them?
Crap. this good for nothing gou lou is becoming bad to worse
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So Lee Hsien Loong is a lion?
He looks like a weakling how to be lion?
Anyway, I don't want to be a slave of PAP.
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Mr Goh said: "(The ancient saying is) 'an army of sheep led by a lion is stronger than an army of lions led by a sheep'.
That's easy for you to say. You are paid millions per year. You are lky's dog.
Goh Chok Tong, you are not a lion.
You are just a dog of lky. If lky sees that you have no more value to him, he will just make up some excuse and dump you. You are a dog.
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Originally posted by ztreyier:
So Lee Hsien Loong is a lion?
He looks like a weakling how to be lion?
Anyway, I don't want to be a slave of PAP.
are you sure the lion is not the old heck?
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lion like to wear pink meh?? now then i know... anyway...what he said is partially true only.....
what about leading by example?? what about serving the people?? what about all men are equal?? whata bout the 2% GST increase to help the poor?
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Lion eat sheeps n PAP is the lion.
Lion does not lead sheep, it will just devour the sheep.
BLOODY HELL! SO LAO GOH N LAO LEE HAVE BEEN CHEATING US ALL THE WHILE.
We were called the lion city, young lions, the lion heart, all bluff one lah?Lao Goh, u go ahead and play sheep, lion or yr goh lee, I still prefer to be human.
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Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):
lion like to wear pink meh?? now then i know... anyway...what he said is partially true only.....
what about leading by example?? what about serving the people?? what about all men are equal?? whata bout the 2% GST increase to help the poor?
There is no such thing as all men are equal in Singapore. Some men are more equal, understand?? ke kekekek, hur hur hur!
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Originally posted by 4sg:
Lion eat sheeps n PAP is the lion.
Lion does not lead sheep, it will just devour the sheep.
BLOODY HELL! SO LAO GOH N LAO LEE HAVE BEEN CHEATING US ALL THE WHILE.
We were called the lion city, young lions, the lion heart, all bluff one lah?Lao Goh, u go ahead and play sheep, lion or yr goh lee, I still prefer to be human.
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Originally posted by 4sg:
Lion eat sheeps n PAP is the lion.
Lion does not lead sheep, it will just devour the sheep.
BLOODY HELL! SO LAO GOH N LAO LEE HAVE BEEN CHEATING US ALL THE WHILE.
We were called the lion city, young lions, the lion heart, all bluff one lah?Lao Goh, u go ahead and play sheep, lion or yr goh lee, I still prefer to be human.
it's not wrong what.... Lion city what....... lion = PAP =Lee... so it's their city lor... he never blur u lah..... he so honest from the start... just that we are all sheep dreaming that we are lion what -
We dialect chinese have been conned by the baba lky. we don't have influence in this country.
PAP, lky from the very beginning it was a con job.
I have been conned by PAP and lky!
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Sheeps... lol!
With lion skin.
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All these PAP clowns, finally revealed their true colours. Goh says that Singaporeans are sheep, lky says to hell with the national pledge.
They only care about money and power.
Singaporeans?
YOU GO TO HELL!
I have BEEN CONNED BY PAP.
HELP!
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but in battle(political wars and economic wars)...kingdom mainly of sheep army will be lost!
a neighbouring country with a king will send only 4 lions to destroy that kingdom
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,,,,,,,i noticed that when burger king burger whopper meal became smaller n smaller and smaller year by year.....dun need to hear their speeches already know what they up to from start!
and the caipng just get lesser n lesser n lesser portions.......and the malay foodstalls with nasi and food simply vanish away or give lesser food.....!
that does it...im immigrating!!!
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S. O. S.
Save our sheep.
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I remember quite sometimes ago,the newspaper introduce SM Goh's son,whom appearing that his son was about to enter Singapore politics n most likely,join PAP as a minister.
But eventually,the news go cold n i believe LKY n his son LHL must have oppose the idea n GCT was forced to drop the idea.
This GCT keep dreaming that LKY n his son would share their power with him,n he keep switching from side to side between opposition n his party,as if dancing tango with LKY.And hope he can get the most benefits from it.
Well,GCT can dream on,LKY n his son will NEVER share power with him.GCT is merely a "dog",use to guard Lees benefit.He must bear that in mind!!!
If he want to seek a way out,then he n his colleagues must learn to defy LKY's order n help Singapore progress to a real democratic country.Otherwise,he n his colleagues will only be "slaves" under the Lees,n its just a matter of times they get nailed by the Lees,whereby they no longer useful to them anymore.
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Originally posted by Howlheje:
I remember quite sometimes ago,the newspaper introduce SM Goh's son,whom appearing that his son was about to enter Singapore politics n most likely,join PAP as a minister.
But eventually,the news go cold n i believe LKY n his son LHL must have oppose the idea n GCT was forced to drop the idea.
This GCT keep dreaming that LKY n his son would share their power with him,n he keep switching from side to side between opposition n his party,as if dancing tango with LKY.And hope he can get the most benefits from it.
Well,GCT can dream on,LKY n his son will NEVER share power with him.GCT is merely a "dog",use to guard Lees benefit.He must bear that in mind!!!
If he want to seek a way out,then he n his colleagues must learn to defy LKY's order n help Singapore progress to a real democratic country.Otherwise,he n his colleagues will only be "slaves" under the Lees,n its just a matter of times they get nailed by the Lees,whereby they no longer useful to them anymore.
But we are not sure if some of these slaves are happy and willing to continue to be their slaves.
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
But we are not sure if some of these slaves are happy and willing to continue to be their slaves.
They will be happy cos their pay is peanut.