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The Failure of Success : The Singapore Story
Overview
What happens when a nation becomes a victim of its own success?
Singapore rose from the ashes to become a model city-state - efficient, clean, and globally admired. But behind this pristine image lies a growing silence, a culture of compliance, and a system struggling to hear its own people. In The Failure of Success, Kannappan Chettiar - legal scholar, clean-tech inventor, and former educator who once built a $50 million enterprise - breaks the silence. With clarity and conviction, he reveals how Singapore's very success has become its greatest threat. Through real-life encounters, sharp political insight, and bold truth-telling, this book exposes: The erosion of trust between citizens and institutions How over-centralization is weakening innovation and free speech The quiet exodus of thinkers, inventors, and reformers Why fear - not prosperity - now shapes policy decisions This is not a book of complaints. It is a call to reclaim courage. To reimagine success not as control, but as resonance - between leaders and the led, between policy and purpose.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9798280953864
- ISBN-10: 9798280953864
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: April 2025
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.13 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.21 pounds
- Page Count: 62
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