With Ms Lee's (now famous for her "unpopular and insensitive" sacking of Singapore's table tennis coach, Mr Lee.
Through this episode, what lessons in timing can we learn in terms of management? If your sales team had exceeded expectations for this year's target, would you dismiss the sales manager even if you'd decided on his "fate" before the results were announced?
Would you continue to implement what has been "decided beforehand" or is a re-evaluation necessary? If you did a reversal, what would be the potential impact of your reputation of being a decisive and determined leader? How do you decide? What are your priorities and criterion for decisions?
There was also another article on today's paper about pregnant mums on timing as well - on how to determine the right timing to inform employers of their pregnancy.
Perhaps the best time would be 3 months and 1 day, when the mandatory legal protection of pregnant moms kicks in?
