Maybe you noticed the articles that Mr Tan Kin Lian, former CEO of NTUC Income, has been publishing, in both the mainstream media and blogs like The Online Citizen. Similar to my 1st reaction, others are asking why he has suddenly turned into a consumers’ champion and criticising his former employer. Also, if he too was guilty of doing the very things that he is now denigrating, when he was CEO.
Then i figured it doesn’t matter.
Whatever his personal motivations are now, we only need to think about whether the perspectives he currently raises are of value to us. Fact is, he is contributing information that many of us would otherwise not have access to (eg. effect of deduction). Whether it is a personal feud or pure altruism that is fuelling this, as long as we can derive some value from his insights, let’s take the good and leave out the speculation on his character. Of course, if we suspect that the information is meant to be manipulative in a way that is detrimental to us, then by all means explore further on the motivations. However, i dun get that sense in the information shared so far.
As the saying goes, big people discuss ideas, average people discuss events and small people discuss people. Let’s be big people here.