For the first two months after we locked down, my delivery of training programmes for the FT’s business education arm stopped. Companies cancelled their courses, along with the associated travel. Then, as people realised Covid-19 would drag on, the orders for online programmes trickled and then flooded in. I delivered several a week, sometimes two a day, to participants on every continent. Instead of flying to Peru or Bangladesh, I marshalled panels and took questions from our spare room.
實行封鎖後的頭兩個月,我爲英國《金融時報》商業教育頻道講授的培訓課程停止了。企業取消了各自的培訓,以及相關的差旅。後來,當人們意識到新型冠狀病毒肺炎(COVID-19,即2019冠狀病毒病)會持續下去時,線上課程的訂單先是零星增多,後來大批湧來。我每週爲各大洲的聽衆上幾節網課,有時一天兩節。我沒有飛往祕魯或孟加拉,而是在我們空閒的房間組織小組討論和回答問題。