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Goh Keng Swee: A Public Career Remembered (Hardcover)
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Goh Keng Swee: A Public Career Remembered (Hardcover)
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Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore's first Minister for Finance from
1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore's first industrial estate now
known as Jurong Town. He was also the first and longest serving
Defence Minister after Singapore became independent in 1965,
responsible for building up the Singapore Armed Forces from
scratch. Later he became Minister for Education in 1981 and
revamped the education system to what it is today. Dr Goh was also
concurrently Deputy Prime Minister from 1973 to 1984 during which
time he set up the Monetary Authority of Singapore.While Dr Goh's
public career and achievements are well documented in press reports
and archival records as well as in photographs and speeches, what
is missing is an insight and exposition of Dr Goh as an individual
in his various roles. Goh Keng Swee: A Public Career Remembered
seeks to provide this missing dimension of Dr Goh as a person to
work for. Thirty-eight persons who had the opportunity of closely
observing or working with Dr Goh have contributed their reflections
and recollections of Dr Goh as a person, colleague and "boss", to
this book. They have given candid and personal pen portraits of an
unusual leader and minister, revealing a glimpse of the working
habits of Dr Goh not known to most people.Drawn from oral histories
and recent interviews, these reminiscences have been
chronologically arranged, from those who recalled what it was like
to work alongside Dr Goh on the Malayan Forum in London in the
early 1950s, through his various ministerial positions, to
travelling with Dr Goh after he "retired" from politics in 1984.
What emerges from these anecdotes of Dr Goh is that he could be an
extremely demanding "boss", who could also be very supportive of
his subordinates. They show him to be a person with a very
inquisitive and creative mind capable of making great leaps of
lateral thinking, able to connect disparate ideas and data to
propose new and innovative solutions to intractable policy
problems. He was truly a Singaporean for all seasons.
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