Careers
Self-Assessment: Are You a Corporate Executive or an Entrepreneur?
Align your ambition with your core temperament to give yourself the best chance of succeeding.
Self-Sabotage Strategies for Talented Hardworking Professionals
The qualities in which ambitious people take the most pride are same ones that can end up holding them back — or worse.
Luck Is Key to Great Success, So Optimize Yours with These Strategies
Here are proven techniques to increases your chances of getting lucky—and leveraging its full potential.
Respect Is the True Language of Success
Choosing words that convey respect, goodwill and restraint rather than aggression, presumption and superiority builds beneficial relationships that pave the road to success.
Next-Gen Parenting for Success in an Automating World—for Yourself and Your Kids
The solipsistic mindset that built today's civilization will fall by the wayside as we move toward an increasingly automated world.
Asian American Tech Bosses Succeed on Something Rarer than Brainpower
The biggest successes owe to the cultural factors of ethics, long-term thinking, discipline and interpersonal style more than intellectual capacity or education.
What the Brainy Can Learn from C‑Students for Business Success
The super‑intelligent are like fish out of water if they skip key lessons from the average.
Key Traits for Success in Asian-Favored Careers — and Love
Psychology offers guidelines on specific traits and personalities best suited for popular Asian American careers as well as personal relationships.
5 Resolutions to Supercharge Your New Year
For ambitious Asian Americans resolutions to rewire your mindset may be more impactful than those that change your daily habits.
The Mindset that Replaces Stress with Sustainable Motivation
Approach your career and life as a marathon and they will be long and filled with meaning and fulfillment, not stress and burnout.
Harness Projection for Fun and Profit
Turn projection into the magic mirror that can free you from that psychological prison that keeps you from realizing your potential for success and happiness.
5 Office Politics Tips for Asian American Men
America's stereotyping of Asian men adds wrinkles to the usual nuisance of office politics.
3 Tips to Top off Your Real Intelligence
Actual intelligence is mostly a product of good mental habits, not genetics or even education.
Career Traps and Proactive Solutions
Model minority stereotypes that help Asian Americans land first jobs can turn into sticky floors and bamboo ceilings that keep Asian American professionals from attaining ...
Look Dynamic — or Actually Be Dynamic
The difference between movie dynamism and actual dynamism is the difference between failure and success.
Success Secret #1: Be a Hater — or Be Greater
Resist the easy lure of false narratives and emerge a winner in the game of life.
Successful Professional Communications Start with These Rules
Make sure you're helping your objective by presenting yourself as a knowledgeable thinker, not a word-wasting buffoon.
Use the Vocabulary of Success
For success devote more effort to how you dress your thoughts than to how you dress your body.
Leverage Powerful Listening for Success
Great listening is harder than talking, but much more rewarding in your career and personal life.
Start Your Own Profitable Business
I have never met a professional who hasn't thought about starting his or her own business. Most ambitious professionals I've spoken with think about doing ...
5 Secrets to Earning a Top Salary
It's no secret that some people get paid much better than others with the same level of competence. Sometimes the difference is attributable to having ...
How to Build a Winning Team
Mariel L had been the top performer in her tech sales group. According to the organizational logic of many corporate giants, she was rewarded with ...
How to Talk to Your Boss
I could really shake things up at the office if I could just get the boss's attention," Sean complained. He was the son of a ...
How to Make Yourself Indispensible to Your Boss
Tne skill is named over and over by top executives as the key to their success: the ability to build lasting relationships. "I used to ...
Job Security in an Outsourced Tech Economy
Whether you believe outsourcing helps or hurts the economy, it has been a fact of economic life since the late 19th century when California miners ...
5 Traps for Asian Female Executives
We were all born with the makings of success — the desire and ability to focus our entire beings on finding solutions to problems. Spend ...
Surviving Sexual Harassment
You think you have it made. You graduated top of the class from Harvard Law School, got a job at a prestigious San Francisco firm ...
Power Makeup for Asian Women Executives
Looking great in the executive suite isn't the same thing as looking like a runway model. It's much trickier -- either too much or too ...
Look Great for That Interview
Interviewers know that the most career-minded people aren't fashion victims. At the same time, dressing well and appropriately gives you an undeniable edge. Suits are ...
Law Enforcement Careers: Joining New York's Finest
Sergeant Alice Lo is a 10-year-veteran of the New York City Police Department. She graduated high school in Hong Kong before immigrating to Canada. After ...
Hottest New Jobs in the IT Field
During the first quarter century of the digital revolution the IT (information technology, i.e., computer-related) field has created over two million well-paying jobs. You probably ...
Are You a Natural Sales Superstar?
Ever considered a career in sales? You aren't alone. Popular misconceptions make many ambitious Asian Americans put sales at the bottom of the totem pole ...
Hottest Careers in Biotech
Biotech is one industry that won't experience a shortage of job openings for the forseeable future. The harnessing of massive computing power for both research ...
Growth and Security in the Healthcare Field
Consider that between 2002 and 2010, the U.S. will need 561,000 more registered nurses (RNs) and 145,000 more health therapists, according to the Bureau of ...
Making the Best of Workplace Stereotypes
Three years out of college Elise Chun had just landed a sales engineer job with a dynamic, fast-growing, mid-sized Bay-Area communications technology firm. It was ...
When Worlds Near-Miss
You speak English without a trace of accent. American customs and attitudes are second nature. So why do you sometimes feel like you're on the ...
Avoiding Conflicts with Asian Colleagues
Let me tell you about my first experience with an Asian colleague in a mostly white workplace. Dex was the epitome of a slick, successful ...
Your Asian Heritage Can Give You a Professional Edge
Jim Iwamatsu grew up hating the Asian stereotype of being adept in technical and academic areas but socially, culturally and verbally deficient. He resented white ...
How to Deal with an Unfair Boss
Nothing destroys an employee's trust and loyalty faster than the suspicion that she is being treated unfairly. It's a common situation, one that nearly everyone ...
Skills Most Essential for Quality Professionals
Professional job descriptions bristle with jargon denoting industry-specific skills — e.g. bioburden testing, C/UNIX environment with UML, common S&C EVMS toolsets, first-chair complex litigation. Proficiency ...
Self-Assessment: Are You a Corporate Executive or an Entrepreneur?
Align your ambition with your core temperament to give yourself the best chance of succeeding.
Self-Sabotage Strategies for Talented Hardworking Professionals
The qualities in which ambitious people take the most pride are same ones that can end up holding them back — or worse.
Luck Is Key to Great Success, So Optimize Yours with These Strategies
Here are proven techniques to increases your chances of getting lucky—and leveraging its full potential.
Respect Is the True Language of Success
Choosing words that convey respect, goodwill and restraint rather than aggression, presumption and superiority builds beneficial relationships that pave the road to success.
Next-Gen Parenting for Success in an Automating World—for Yourself and Your Kids
The solipsistic mindset that built today's civilization will fall by the wayside as we move toward an increasingly automated world.
Asian American Tech Bosses Succeed on Something Rarer than Brainpower
The biggest successes owe to the cultural factors of ethics, long-term thinking, discipline and interpersonal style more than intellectual capacity or education.
What the Brainy Can Learn from C‑Students for Business Success
The super‑intelligent are like fish out of water if they skip key lessons from the average.
Key Traits for Success in Asian-Favored Careers — and Love
Psychology offers guidelines on specific traits and personalities best suited for popular Asian American careers as well as personal relationships.
5 Resolutions to Supercharge Your New Year
For ambitious Asian Americans resolutions to rewire your mindset may be more impactful than those that change your daily habits.
The Mindset that Replaces Stress with Sustainable Motivation
Approach your career and life as a marathon and they will be long and filled with meaning and fulfillment, not stress and burnout.
Harness Projection for Fun and Profit
Turn projection into the magic mirror that can free you from that psychological prison that keeps you from realizing your potential for success and happiness.
5 Office Politics Tips for Asian American Men
America's stereotyping of Asian men adds wrinkles to the usual nuisance of office politics.
3 Tips to Top off Your Real Intelligence
Actual intelligence is mostly a product of good mental habits, not genetics or even education.
Career Traps and Proactive Solutions
Model minority stereotypes that help Asian Americans land first jobs can turn into sticky floors and bamboo ceilings that keep Asian American professionals from attaining ...
Look Dynamic — or Actually Be Dynamic
The difference between movie dynamism and actual dynamism is the difference between failure and success.
Success Secret #1: Be a Hater — or Be Greater
Resist the easy lure of false narratives and emerge a winner in the game of life.
Successful Professional Communications Start with These Rules
Make sure you're helping your objective by presenting yourself as a knowledgeable thinker, not a word-wasting buffoon.
Use the Vocabulary of Success
For success devote more effort to how you dress your thoughts than to how you dress your body.
Leverage Powerful Listening for Success
Great listening is harder than talking, but much more rewarding in your career and personal life.
Start Your Own Profitable Business
I have never met a professional who hasn't thought about starting his or her own business. Most ambitious professionals I've spoken with think about doing ...
5 Secrets to Earning a Top Salary
It's no secret that some people get paid much better than others with the same level of competence. Sometimes the difference is attributable to having ...
How to Build a Winning Team
Mariel L had been the top performer in her tech sales group. According to the organizational logic of many corporate giants, she was rewarded with ...
How to Talk to Your Boss
I could really shake things up at the office if I could just get the boss's attention," Sean complained. He was the son of a ...
How to Make Yourself Indispensible to Your Boss
Tne skill is named over and over by top executives as the key to their success: the ability to build lasting relationships. "I used to ...
Job Security in an Outsourced Tech Economy
Whether you believe outsourcing helps or hurts the economy, it has been a fact of economic life since the late 19th century when California miners ...
5 Traps for Asian Female Executives
We were all born with the makings of success — the desire and ability to focus our entire beings on finding solutions to problems. Spend ...
Surviving Sexual Harassment
You think you have it made. You graduated top of the class from Harvard Law School, got a job at a prestigious San Francisco firm ...
Power Makeup for Asian Women Executives
Looking great in the executive suite isn't the same thing as looking like a runway model. It's much trickier -- either too much or too ...
Look Great for That Interview
Interviewers know that the most career-minded people aren't fashion victims. At the same time, dressing well and appropriately gives you an undeniable edge. Suits are ...
Law Enforcement Careers: Joining New York's Finest
Sergeant Alice Lo is a 10-year-veteran of the New York City Police Department. She graduated high school in Hong Kong before immigrating to Canada. After ...
Hottest New Jobs in the IT Field
During the first quarter century of the digital revolution the IT (information technology, i.e., computer-related) field has created over two million well-paying jobs. You probably ...
Are You a Natural Sales Superstar?
Ever considered a career in sales? You aren't alone. Popular misconceptions make many ambitious Asian Americans put sales at the bottom of the totem pole ...
Hottest Careers in Biotech
Biotech is one industry that won't experience a shortage of job openings for the forseeable future. The harnessing of massive computing power for both research ...
Growth and Security in the Healthcare Field
Consider that between 2002 and 2010, the U.S. will need 561,000 more registered nurses (RNs) and 145,000 more health therapists, according to the Bureau of ...
Making the Best of Workplace Stereotypes
Three years out of college Elise Chun had just landed a sales engineer job with a dynamic, fast-growing, mid-sized Bay-Area communications technology firm. It was ...
When Worlds Near-Miss
You speak English without a trace of accent. American customs and attitudes are second nature. So why do you sometimes feel like you're on the ...
Avoiding Conflicts with Asian Colleagues
Let me tell you about my first experience with an Asian colleague in a mostly white workplace. Dex was the epitome of a slick, successful ...
Your Asian Heritage Can Give You a Professional Edge
Jim Iwamatsu grew up hating the Asian stereotype of being adept in technical and academic areas but socially, culturally and verbally deficient. He resented white ...
How to Deal with an Unfair Boss
Nothing destroys an employee's trust and loyalty faster than the suspicion that she is being treated unfairly. It's a common situation, one that nearly everyone ...
Skills Most Essential for Quality Professionals
Professional job descriptions bristle with jargon denoting industry-specific skills — e.g. bioburden testing, C/UNIX environment with UML, common S&C EVMS toolsets, first-chair complex litigation. Proficiency ...
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