Lee Kuan Yew Leadership Case Study is a part of Leadership
Stories, a series of biographies of great leaders in history
that have impacted the world in a huge way. Lee Kuan Yew
Leadership Who was He? Lee Kuan Yew was the first and longest
serving Prime Minister of Singapore; and it was his leadership
that brought Third World Singapore into a thriving metropolitan
city in a stunning 3 decades. He is currently serving as
Minister Mentor in the government, advising the country’s
leaders on national issues. To date, he still wields much
influence in the region as an authority in nation building. A
Quick History Lee Kuan Yew was born in 1923 as the eldest child
of Lee Chin Koon. He studied in the top schools in Singapore and
went to the London school of Economics briefly for his
university education before moving over to Cambridge where he
obtained his Law degree. He started his political career under a
Pro-British Progressive Party as an election agent. However, he
began to realize that the British would not gain