Global Leadership Study Finds Leadership Development Embedded into Culture of Top Companies  Read more ...

Chinese companies are suddenly bidding on U.S. businesses the way George Steinbrenner goes after free-agent baseball stars.  Read more ...

Each year 10s of thousands of foreign language teachers descend on China to teach English. The majority are unqualified. Almost all have absolutely no qualifications to teach Business English, let alone English. As China develops into an economic giant, the demand for Business English grows at an exponential rate. Yet those teaching and those providing the medium for teaching are doing the future business leaders of China a great disservice. Small professional schools are appearing - but it is imperative the Chinese government consider legislative action in the near term to develop and promote professional business English schools and to regulate the Foreign Service providers. Whilst China is the focus of this work, it should be noted that other Asian economies such as Korea, Vietnam and Malaysia are also beset by issues of grossly incompetent business English teachers practicing their pseudo trade.  Read more ...