Singapore's success lies in not tossing

The handover of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has attracted much attention, and comments generally spoke highly of him.

The facts are also there:

During the tenure of Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore GDP increased from 127.8 billion US dollars in 2005 to 501.3 billion US dollars in 2023; The per capita GDP is more dominant in the world, increasing from US $29900 to US $84700 (about 613000 yuan) 。

Also during Lee Hsien Loong's term of office, Singapore became the largest source of new investment in China and has maintained its position for more than 10 years. In April 2022, it also surpassed Japan for the first time to become China's largest cumulative source of foreign investment.

What do you mean?

The country that invests the most in China in the world is not the United States, not Japan, but Singapore. By the end of March 23, Singapore's cumulative actual investment in China had exceeded US $134.83 billion.

Of course, China has also invested in Singapore, which has accumulated more than 80 billion dollars by March 2023. Especially in recent years, many of Singapore's richest people have been contributed by China.

however, The success of Singapore and Lee Hsien Loong is not because they have any special function and have accomplished tasks that others cannot. It seems that they do not believe that they have any special ability and believe that they can create special miracles.

At first glance, behind the miracle of economic development and the improvement of national income, they give a deeper impression of the normal and ordinary. They are doing things step by step day by day. Even if the world is stormy, they are trying to strive for and maintain this normal and normal, continuous normal.

Over the years, have you heard of any ambitious and great plan put forward by Lee Hsien Loong or Singapore, any words about changing the world and creating miracles, or anything spectacular and earth shaking?

Basically, there is nothing, but only ordinary and normal; Some just insist on doing the right thing, insist on doing the right thing; There is only respect for common sense laws and efforts to make continuous progress under modern civilization.

But Lee Hsien Loong's power, Singapore's power, may be due to this ordinary and normal.

This makes them lack of some great efforts to do miracles, even less great and wise, but less detours and mistakes, less left to right thrusts, repeated trial and error, and even blind tossing, adding a very important and precious thing, which we call:

More certainty.

For decades, when distant relatives and neighbors have their own troubles and frustrations, it is not easy for them to survive, and Asia's No. 1 is not happy. It is dedicated to developing the economy to improve people's livelihood, and also strives to seek a normal and normal development environment in a turbulent world to maintain this stability and certainty.

When some places have been developing for a while, like a historical swing, Singapore Through this certainty, it has developed into a linear evolution that has always been good 。 Its development may not be so fast in the short term, but it will be faster in the long term if it is always better and takes advantage of the power of time.

Moreover, the more volatile and uncertain the outside world is, the more precious its certainty will be.

A wealthy entrepreneur from Indonesia to Singapore even joked with me: just Singapore can live a prosperous and developed life by eating the unpredictable politics and legal system of some countries.

Last year, there was an article called "Never break into Singapore in troubled times". In fact, many developments in Singapore since the founding of the People's Republic of China have reaped the "troubled times". During the anti Chinese disaster in Indonesia, a large number of Chinese businessmen went to Singapore. Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Prime Minister of Thailand, and Yingluck also enjoyed themselves with their families in Singapore after they went into exile

Another characteristic of Singapore is that it is really too small. Xiao Rang has always had a crisis, which is what people often say. When it comes to a certain emergency, even his own life is not counted.

But it also has a benefit, Be more careful to prevent yourself from getting there, and cherish and seek for your own certainty As long as it is less than that chance, it really only needs a little more normality and certainty than others.

Drucker, a management expert, once wrote in his book Effective Managers: "A well managed factory is always dull, without any exciting events."

In Drucker's view, the real outstanding management and enterprise is to establish a long-term sustainable system and mechanism, so that the strategy and ambition can fall to the dribs and drabs day by day, rather than relying on individual heroism or group excitement.

Singapore is such a "well managed factory".

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