professor say emphatically NS IS KILLING SG

The other thing is, of course, productivity. Again, the general strategy is a good one. I think there is a little bit of tension between the orderly, well-organised tradition of how things are done in Singapore... and the kind of chaos that you need to raise productivity. You need non-conformists. You need renegades. And that's not the 'Singapore Way'. I wait to see how that plays out.