I first read and wrote an article about ‘paradigm shifts’ in the NST in 1992 premised on such thinking propagated by a paper originally written by the late Tan Sri Noordin Sopiee of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS).

I had then also documented my reaction to a book launched by the then chief secretary to the government (KSN) called The Malaysian Civil Service: A Paradim Shift. My article was entitled, "What Paradigm Shift?"