Attempts to change by fiat what has been arrived at through organic, evolutionary adaptation will likely fail as pontificators such as the author fail to unders

Attempts to change by fiat what has been arrived at through organic, evolutionary adaptation will likely fail as pontificators such as the author fail to understand how the current state of affairs materialized in the first place. > The most obvious solution to make the English rule suck less, is to require bilinguality from everyone in the team, not just non-native English speakers. The value of a lingua Franca is that there is ONE. Once one becomes established, it becomes a stable equilibrium due to the positive network externalities it creates. The rest of the points: > * Let employees choose their communication medium That really depends on the kind of business one is in and cannot be solely up to the employee. > * Relax the English-first rule in social settings, as long as it doesn't foster exclusivity. What does "social setting" mean? If I am meeting with a work friend after-hours, why would the business be able to say anything about that? If an employee is meeting a client for lunch, say, a client who does not wish to communicate in the employee's preferred language but prefers English, how can the English-first rule be relaxed? Why does the business have anything to do with "social settings"? > * Having a 1:1? Do whatever you want. Say the CMO and the CEO are both native speakers of Japanese. During their weekly 1:1, they can (and should!) meet in Japanese, and take notes in Japanese. But as soon as they develop a new initiative involving others, they should document it in English. English? Or, in the company's preferred language? If two people are communicating in private, how is anyone else involved in it? Why does there need to be a blog post about what language two people having a conversation in private ought to use? Now, the example is CMO and CEO, both members of the C-suite. What if a new CEO takes over and decrees that everyone must now learn to communicate in a language other than English? What do I do?