Walking among the protesters clogging Central and Admiralty in Hong Kong, I have been struck like every other observer by the civic-mindedness and discipline of the student activists.
From the girls spraying me with water to cool off the heat to the boys collecting rubbish from the twenty-something announcing recycling procedures over the tannoy to the high schoolers turning cardboard slogans into art I saw an entire generation of Hong Kongers that are polite, energetic, work well in teams, and committed to achieving something bigger than themselves.
In short, I found an entire coterie of people who embody many of the qualities on the CV that employers...