Football Management Theory

It seems like the last World Cup ended not too long ago where Germany beat Argentina 1-0 in the final to hold the Cup for the 4^th-time. Now the World Cup is here again. How time flies! 

The German team has to go home early after they were eliminated at the group stage after a humiliating defeat 0-2 by the South Korean. The Germans lacked the skills and ideas from the young and inexperienced players to penetrate a well-defended Korean side. This was the worst performance of the German team in last 5 World Cups! 

Football is a team sport.

Everyone has to be skillful, be the best and able to work as a team to win. When the team depends on only one or two players, it’s very tough to win in any competition. This same theory also applies to organizations, big or small with some exceptions, of course:

If the boss knows that you cannot perform, you make him/her likes you so that you continue to ‘play’ and avoid being shown the red-card. If your boss doesn’t know your poor performance, you just keep quiet, do your routine stuff & collect pay every month till you are exposed. Then you join another team & ask for higher pay. Now, you just pray hard that you continue as status quo.      

Friend to All = Friend Pays All?

I had to ‘eat’ my words when I said taxpayers wouldn’t mind paying for the cost to host the historic summit. Twenty millions is a lot of money and it could have been used to help many poor residents here. Many ‘top guns’ said it’s money well-spent but now I think otherwise. We are setting a precedence for other requests for such meeting in future when world leaders need to resolve their conflicts. 

Friend to all = friend pays for coffee and tea, sometimes!

Submit to Summit

When two hot-superpower leaders wanted to use your place for their summit meeting, do you say no? Of course not unless you’re asking for troubles. One would send you rockets as gift and the other would stop his support to you to deal with the east. So you really have no choice but to say yes not only to provide a place, coffee, tea but also to pick up the tabs on the huge resource and security costs that is most likely to come from taxpayers’ money. Most taxpayers, I believe, wouldn’t mind this huge expenses when it’s for a worthy cause towards world peace. 

I’ve been living on this tiny island all my life and have been to almost every corner of this small city state. Yet I could not find any iconic backdrop for this historical photo shoot for the 2 leaders except for this only spot that shows and tells our presence and contribution to this summit.

I bet this is the spot.  

Two heavy weights are coming to town

All politicians like to play games.

Nobody could beat both Donald Trump & Kim Jung Um. The American president always thought he could fool everyone by twisting and turning his words on the coming summit. The fact is, he really has no other choice but to choose Singapore as the summit venue.

It’s isn’t doing any good when the two loggerheads keep playing with fire. When they are here, just let them play with water to cool themselves, especially when the weather here is getting hot!

Also let them try our local food prepared from local sources.

The Old and the Bold

Who say you cannot be bold when you are old?
You can be both.

Most people his age are already frail, senile and have probably lost most of their memories, but not this old man who is still working at 92, who is turning 93 in July.

He had never disclosed his secrets to longevity and some said it’s the effect of taking tongkat-ali in his diet which nobody could verify. 

As expected, they have no money to continue the HSR project as they found their safe empty except for one can food left behind by the previous government. Yet, this old man said they would spend money to develop 2 tiny rocks into an island on waters near Singapore. 

His hostility towards Singapore is back as he helms the top post again for the second time. Maybe, he would also revive the crooked bridge project across the causeway. Tough time ahead for our ‘big thinkers’ here!