Stealing Managers From The Big Boys

By just about any measure, Aaron Tong was a success. He was pulling down[挣钱] $100,000-plus as a senior manager of Motorola Inc.'s cellular division in Beijing and had worked in Singapore and the U.S. But twogiant Inflatable Christmas years ago, when TV-and-phone-maker TCL Corp. asked if Tong might accept a position as vice-president, he jumped at the chance. Although the modest salary hike and stock options[股权 were welcome, that wasn't what really attracted[v.吸引] him. "They were offering me a more challenging job," says Tong, 42. At "a Chinese company, you can do a lot more important things than with a multinational." Tong isn't the only Chinese manager being poached from[从某人/某处挖走人员或窃取思想] the global giants[在此代指跨国公司]. Tang Jun, president of NASDAQ-listed online gaming company Shanda Interactive Entertainment, served as president of Microsoft Corp.'s Chinese operations. Jean Cai, head of corporate communications at Lenovo, is a veteran of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide and General Electric Co. Telecom equipment maker Huawei has hired people away from Motorola and Nokia, while Haier, China Netcom, and Brilliance China Automotive Holdings have lured[吸引,引诱] staffers from consultants McKinsey, A.T. Kearney, and Boston Consulting Group. "We spend a lot of time advising multinationals on how to hold on to their best people," says Bill Henderson, managing partner for China at headhunters Egon Zehnder International.