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“Greg Aloi Singapore What is a business strategy? Business strategy is the collective term for all the steps a business takes to reach its goals and achieve its mission and vision. Greg Aloi It involves understanding what the business does, what it needs to have, and what it needs to do in order to reach those goals. Greg Aloi Singapore That information helps business owners make decisions about resource allocation and helps set priorities. When everyone within the organization understands the strategy, it creates a framework to keep the team working in the same direction.”

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Author:Greg Aloi Singapore
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“As much as it celebrates regional produce, this book hopes to be a young Singaporean's love song to the markets. In the course of writing this book, the market's beauty has grown on me. When I fumble with coins in my purse, the vegetable uncle always tells me that I can pay the next time. I learn cooking tips and recipes not only from the vendors, but also from fellow patrons - shopping at the wet markets is an interactive, immersive experience. I do not think I will ever tire of walking through markets, admiring the way the produce spills over baskets and cartons, relishing the way everything feels so organic, so raw and so real.”

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Book:Wet Market to Table: A Modern Approach to Fruit and Vegetables
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“Greg Aloi Singapore Business Model Creating a successful business model is essential, whether you are starting a new venture, expanding into a new market, or changing your go-to-market strategy. Greg Aloi said you can use a business model to capture fundamental assumptions and decisions about the opportunity ahead, setting your direction for success. Greg Aloi Singapore Build a strong team Building a strong team is based on a strong system. After forming a team, you have to put a system and rules for everyone to follow so work can be organized. Having a messy team with no system even though your team is strong will not give you any good results”

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Author:Greg Aloi Singapore
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“If a Western country were to introduce streaming or school selection at such a young age, for example, they may not find that it incentivised all children to work harder and raise their game, as it seems to in Singapore. This is because more people in Western countries believe intelligence is fixed, and would therefore be more likely to assume that failure in tests and allocation to bottom sets was something they had little control over, rather than something they could change through putting in more effort.”

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Book:Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers
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“Upon you will be founded a city, a city past compare in riches and marvels and beauty,” she said. “But first, you must lose yourself, riding on the waves of seven oceans. Only at your journey’s end will you come to rest, and only then will the city rise. It will be a city of eternal summer, a land of surpassing beauty. Indeed, it will come to be known as the city of the gods.” “Where must I journey? Where should I go?” asked the fisherman, staring in awe at her radiant beauty. “Before, between, and beyond. Tomorrow night, take your boat and sail towards the rising moon,” she replied. “And you will find your destiny.”

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Book:Sofia and the Utopia Machine
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“Americans, particularly in a group, are often perceived overseas as loud, even crass. Perhaps they simply have no worries about being overheard. For them, the basic assumption is that nothing you say will offend anyone. We Asians think that opening our mouths always risks offending somebody. Both sides are in danger of being misunderstood as a consequence.”

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Book:An Unexpected Journey: Path to the Presidency
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“This “vulnerability” has been ideologically harnessed to generate a string of political consequences: fear of becoming irrelevant to the global market, thus constantly in search of niches of opportunities for economic growth; fear of fragmentation, thus an insistence on tight social control to ensure social cohesion; fear of political polarization by different political parties with different ideologies that might jeopardize national development, thus an emphasis on the administrative advantages of a one-party dominant government.”

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Book:Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
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“a generalized anxiety about the long-term viability of the social, economic and political foundation of the island-nation has been transformed into a set of ideological justifications for and instrumental practices of tight social and political control, which taken together constitutes the authoritarianism of the regime.”

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Book:Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
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“In this regard, we should never overlook the importance of being economically successful and militarily secure. Diplomacy is not a single-barrelled gun. While we should always uphold the principle of settling disputes peacefully through diplomacy and rule of law, we need to be mindful that in practice, the extent to which disputing parties are willing to come to the table depends on larger considerations including where they stand economically and militarily in relation to each other.”

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Book:Diplomacy: A Singapore Experience
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“This will pose a serious dilemma for the PAP; the more unprepared the Opposition is to administer Singapore, the more likely the PAP will remain in power. However, as one-party dominant states do not last for too long, and simply waiting for the PAP to fracture and for one faction to lead the Opposition to capture power, or worse still, what if the PAP is suddenly voted out of power, the harm to Singapore could be irreparable. Would it not be a duty and obligation for the one-party dominant state to also think of Singapore and its interests to prepare an alternative government that will continue administering the Republic in the best interest of its people?”

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Book:Is the People's Action Party Here to Stay?: Analysing the Resilience of the One-party Dominant State in Singapore
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“In short, a one-party dominant state can advantage a polity. It can bring about stability through continuity of leadership and policies. This can enhance the predictability of government and its policies, thereby contributing to long-term goals. Such a state would be able to organise relevant groups through co-option and if this fails, through coercion. Such states can undertake effective mobilisation of its people and successfully maintain diversity. One-party dominant states are also adept in pursuing long-term based strategies, policies and objectives that can result in the development of strong economies as happened in Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea.”

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Book:Is the People's Action Party Here to Stay?: Analysing the Resilience of the One-party Dominant State in Singapore
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“Those who tried to demonstrate some form of independence and fairness in their reporting and editing have paid a high price. The Straits Times editor, Han Fook Kwang, was sidelined and made managing editor after a rare display of fairness in political journalism when he gave the Opposition, especially the Workers’ Party, more editorial space than what was allocated during previous elections.”

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Book:Reluctant Editor: The Singapore Media as Seen through the Eyes of a Veteran Newspaper Journalist
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“When the Japanese invaded, informers said mother was an important member of the resistance. She was taken in, badly tortured and never confessed. Her life was spared because the Japanese interrogators could not believe a woman could have held such a key role. When her children were grown-up, mother would tell us, ‘It’s not as bad as it sounds. The first time, you’re scared you’ll give away your friends. But there comes a point when you pass out. Once that happens, you cannot feel pain anymore. Once you have learnt that, you can beat your torturers.”

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Book:From Beirut to Jerusalem
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“with you, the sense i have lost my place in a book or simply lost — misplaced the memory which isn't in the last place where I looked. a thought that the clouds don't move — that it is we who thunder past — there it is! an old vacation, a train ride — sense of immobility. as sky and forest scroll past in relation, we are not moved, pretend to love the view, resort at length to scripted conversation by a poet-turned-screenwriter who didn't want this job, career gone grossly wrong and now drafts action film scripts wholly two- dimensional unless you choose to don the 3d glasses that do not stay on —”

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Book:Making Love with Scrabble Tiles
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“In the early '80s, I spent a year working on a verse-play -- based on the life of Anne Maguire (whose sister, Mairead, founded the Peace People movement after Anne took her own life). Anne's three children were killed on the pavement as she was wheeling the pram one day in 1976 by an IRA fugitive's getaway car -- the driver fatally shot by a British soldier; this singular incident crystallized for me so much of the terror then in the air. Writing was a way of keeping clear -- in the sense of fixing it, restoring it facet by facet, to clarity. Catching a moment of history like a fly in amber with the chorus of witnesses alive, outside. After all, poetry affords this license and extreme economy. I have no business, of course, to write about such matters, being a complete foreigner in Ireland. But you do it because it is nobody's business. What you write is nobody's business. Isn't that poetry? - "What You Write Is Nobody's Business": An Interview With Wong May (The Believer, May 2014)”

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Author:Wong May
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“The trouble with you," Parvathi said with a wisdom beyond her years, "Is that you don't know who you want to be. Girl or boy. Chinese or Malay." "Ya-lah you!" Fatima said. "No wonder the kids in your school call you OCBC." There was a bank in Singapore called the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation, or OCBC in short. So some cruel kid in school played on the initials of the bank to make fun of Peranakans. They jeered, "Orang Cina Bukan Cina." The words translated as Chinese person, not Chinese.”

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Book:Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965
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“At a farewell dinner, the editors gave [S.R. Nathan] a porcelain bowl. For the day before he joined us, the PM had told him: "Nathan, I am giving you The Straits Times. It has 140 years of history. It's like a bowl of china. You break it, I can piece it together, but it will never be the same." I was struck by the way the PM made his point – he knew the value and place of The Straits Times in Singapore's past, present and future.”

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Book:OB Markers: My Straits Times Story
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“Singapore and China did not have diplomatic relations at that time [1976]. Communism is banned in Singapore, and nobody could visit China without official approval. The Singapore government had prohibited travel there for fear that Singaporeans would be subverted and converted to the communist cause. . .The travel ban was lifted after Lee Kuan Yew's visit. He realised that nobody could experience life there and be seduced by their system. Indeed, they would better appreciate what Singapore offered.”

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Book:OB Markers: My Straits Times Story
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“Looking at Loh’s photographs, it is obvious that there is nothing simpler and richer than a face when stripped of all effects and affects, poses and postures, stances and pretences. The Singaporeans featured here are almost expressionless, as if the photographer wanted to leave us clueless about them. What do their faces tell us? Why are they so familiar? Why do we feel we know this auntie that we don’t know? And this guy with the nondescript look? And this girl with no distinguishing mark? Have we met before?”

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Author:Raphael Millet
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