Years ago, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman Jr co-authored In Search of Excellence, a bestseller and must-have for anyone who wanted to grow and run a successful business.

Years later Bill Gates in the book Business at the Speed of Thought mentioned the fact that many of businesses profiled in Tom Peters’ masterpiece in fact did not remain at the top of their game.

Please note that these companies were led by some of the most brilliant people in America; alumni of the Ivy League colleges but their knowledge was not enough to stop their organisations from fizzling out.

Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore, wrote the book From Third World to First.

He led Singapore from being a Third World nation to First World, thriving nation and major world player in just 25 years.