let me explain how it works in the corporate world , but first thing first
in the business world , it's not the competency in your professionalism that earns you big bucks but where you are in the pecking order
so , the young Goh was the chairman ,a chairman usually is the figurative head of the company like our president and the actual person who really looks after the company affairs is the executive director , and there are other directors in the bioard of a company who are appointed for their specialization such a director who is a lawyer or an accountant or even an ex politician who may knows nuts about the company but be director of the board
so ,why is a doctor a chairman of an oil company ? the assumption here is such a person also an expert managerial material other than his profession ,hence you would find engineers heading medical company and dentist heading shipping companies and so on...but of course ,this is arbitrary as who adjudicate ones ability as a super managerial material is questionable
having said that ,we all know how this junior got his chairmanship, but how he managed from henceforth will come to play ...I suppose you would have watched the British comedy ,' Yes please Mr Prime minister ' in this satire it portrays how a PM is manipulated by the perm sec , similarly this chairmanship
