Comments on: China’s Talent Shortage

By: sara

sara — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:56:42 +0000

To company, it is more practical to think what i have and how to make use of them rather than what should be there (the resource).

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:52:34 +0000

What is the right standards/definition for ‘talent,’ by the way? The modern companies need ‘talents’ good enough at the moment or ‘talents’ who are sustainably progressing?

A diamond means everything somewhere but nothing otherwhere, right?

By: David Foster

David Foster — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:53:52 +0000

“The (Chinese) educational system’s bias toward theory”?

Seems to me that the *American* educational system is increasingly biased toward theory, in fields ranging from English to Computer Science to Business…and I bet to a significant extent in Engineering as well.

May not have progressed as far as the situation in China, but perhaps the pRoblems China is now having could be considered as a useful warning.