{"product_id":"singapore-disrupted","title":"Singapore, Disrupted: Puncturing Myths, Defining the Future","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e3rd Prize of the 2018 Popular Bookstores' Readers Choice Awards, Adult Book Category\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this volume of fresh essays and published articles, Chua Mui Hoong, political columnist and Opinion editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Straits Times\u003c\/em\u003e takes on issues such as joblessness and safety nets, meritocracy and elitism, marketplace upheavals and leadership transitions, and persuades us that in this new age of disruption, what Singapore needs is a new order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSingapore is in a state of disruption. Change is here – disorienting, disturbing, sometimes distressing change. Disruptive technologies are displacing jobs and dislodging workers. Society is showing signs of splintering. The gap between the “best” and the rest is growing. In establishment circles, members are breaking ranks. People are searching, probing, asking: what’s happening?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChange is also unequal. While shaking up many quarters at an alarming rate, it is not happening fast enough in the areas that truly matter, observes Chua Mui Hoong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a journalist who writes from both the head and the heart – and often from a heartlander’s perspective – she takes on issues such as joblessness and safety nets, meritocracy and elitism, marketplace upheavals and leadership transitions, and persuades us that in this new age of disruption, what Singapore needs is a new order. But how can Singapore reorder itself? What can it do better? How must it move, and how can all the motion be translated into real change and advancement?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSingapore is at a crossroads. How it responds to this state of disruption will determine its place in the disrupted world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Straits Times Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21016234819697,"sku":"9789814747929","price":27.94,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/9789814747929_SporeDisrupted_2nd_Reprint_Cover_LR.jpg?v=1706783049","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/singapore-disrupted","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}