E-MAIL FROM A
YOUNG SINGAPOREAN 25 YEARS OLD DATED SEP 17, 2011
We just have to adapt to our colleagues and people
around us and the only thing you can do is advise them.
If they do not wish to take it on board you cannot force
them. However, if you explain to them why something is
done and they find it logical and useful, then they will
be more receptive. This is because that is the way the
government and schools are trying to implement. Critical
thinking and reasonable challenge of ideas are promoted
by the Ministry of Education.
MY REPLY
Agree with you regarding advices to the young ones.
Can't force them to do things. Just need to spend more
time explaining the rationale. Or they learn from the
experience of making mistakes.
MY COMMENTS
I only hope that the mistakes the young ones make
against advices from seniors are not fatal for the pets.
This is another new world - more choices, more
challenges and more competition.
The different mindset of the Google Generation has much
to do with the availability of information in the
internet as well as with a new type of education in
Singapore and other developed countries.
I am listening to an audio "Thinking for a Living" by
Thomas H Davenport. He says that knowledge workers
(find, create, package knowledge for a living) are much
independent-minded and their performance is hard to
measure. How to choose appropriate intervention and
performance measure and how to maximise productivity.
TOA
PAYOH VETS
