Non-linear thinkers are what a world in flux needs: Temasek CEO

TEMASEK Holdings recruits not just people with a finance or investment background, but also those with an ability to think in a non-linear way, said the state investment company’s chief executive officer Dilhan Pillay.

These “out-of-the-box thinkers who are always challenging the paradigm” are not traditionally accepted as most people think linearly, but they are needed in a Vuca world, he said at the Steward Leadership Summit on Tuesday (Nov 21).

Pillay had mentioned the term Vuca – a popular acronym used to describe the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity present in today’s operating realities – a number of times in his speech.