Today I read an article “When the balancesheet don’t want to strive anymore”[1]. Nonetheless the article is worth reading, a good point comes to me. It states a successful enterprise named Rakuten that thrives in an overall depression atmosphere. The key point is that only English is permissible as a working language when having a meeting.
Let me quote this:
而唯一拿得出手的互联网公司Rakuten（号称日本的亚马逊），其创始人三木谷浩史分享过两个秘诀：一是大量雇佣外籍人士，”Rakuten快速成长的原因就是我们聘用外国工程师”；二是公司2012年开始所有员在所有场合，都必须说英语。