To many of the biggest multinational banks around the world, "Asian banks don't hold the attraction that opportunities closer to home do, " says JohnHobson, regional bank analyst at CS First Boston in Hong Kong.
The coaches assigned to Walton Middle School were JohnHobson, a bushy-bearded high-school history teacher who was just thirty-three years old when he started but had been a successful baseball and tennis coach, and Diane Harding, a teacher who had two decades of experience but had spent the previous seven years out of the classroom, serving as a technology specialist.
Sure enough, members Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson called out Mr. Wales on the issue on Twitter and elsewhere, and John Cass invited him to join the group.