There is a cool article over on the New York Times site that describes a new management training tool that IBM is starting up. Its called the Corporate Service Corps and will entail IBM employee's that are up and comers in the company to work for a month in a foreign country. They will work with nonprofit organizations to help small businesses around the world.

<< “As a development tool, this is a four-for-one,” said Allan R. Cohen, dean of the Olin Graduate School at Babson College, near Boston. “It’s stretching to work in another culture, to work in a nonprofit where the measurement of accomplishment isn’t clear, to take a sabbatical from your everyday routine and to learn to accomplish things when you can’t just bark orders.” >>

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/technology/26blue.html?ref=technology

This seems like a great program that benefits IBM, the employee and small businesses that would otherwise not have the opportunity to get help from a company like IBM.