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Posted by Xiao Qiang | Feb 19, 2005 Mr. Elton is actually just one of many popular management gurus: experts say the country has a severe shortage of skilled business managers and a growing cadre of people who want to be the next Bill Gates.
So Western management experts – teaching everything from how to reward employees to how to foster innovation – are flocking to China, trying to capitalize on this capitalist frenzy.
Big names are coming, like John F. Welch Jr., Stephen R. Covey and Michael E. Porter, a Harvard Business School specialist on competition. But so are the lesser known. They are conducting management-training seminars, hawking their books, making television appearances and soaking up the adoration.