He is in the league of First Generation Leaders that steadily built Singapore. He is no modern technocrat; however, he has an army of young technocrats with awesome credentials (Chen Show Mao, Sylvia, JJ, Daniel, TingRu, Ah Huat, Chon High, Ranjit, Seck Guan, Zakir, etc). No parachutists (One day army general next day candidate type)... all must be able to walk the walk.