What we need is to develop in all Foreign Service Officers a better instinct for understanding the needs of U.S. business abroad.
There has been a major improvement in the way U.S. Ambassadors and the Foreign Service establishment try to assist U.S. business overall.
We must institute more training to give Foreign Service Officers the skills to do what they must do in this new world of commercial competition.
What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.
Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service.