The term "broken English" is often used in a negative context, insinuating that someone isn’t speaking the language correctly. But as the CEO of a global security enterprise, I think of broken English as my company’s lingua franca.
At Trend Micro, our senior management team speaks eight distinct languages, oversees employees in 65 countries, and spans over a dozen time zones. Operating in a melting pot of cultures and communicating in our shared language, broken English, is how we unite the efforts of all our teams. It’s far from a weakness–it is one of our greatest strengths.
