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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Win the Boss's Trust from Day One

The boss is the enemy. She may try to show how warm and caring she is but deep down she's just trying to squeeze the ...

How to Write Resumes That Get Callbacks

During fifteen years of recruiting in which I have looked through at least fifty thousand resumes, I have come to a shocking conclusion: 90% of ...

Is It Time to Change Jobs?

Leslie Ninomiya loves her job. She got hired right out of junior college and worked her way up to section supervisor. Lately her section has ...

What to Say and Not to Say in an Interview

For a heavily-recruited candidate with brilliant credentials, an interview is a chance to enhance your value in the eyes of your prospective employer. For most ...

Corporate Hiring Priorities in a Tough Economy

Jobseekers often focus on the impact on the job market produced by short-lived economic conditions. In boom times they expect the benefits of more liberal ...

7 Biggest Jobhunting Mistakes of the Digital Age

Job sites, online resumes and email are valuable tools and resources for savvy job seekers. For the inexperienced or the clueless, they are black holes ...

Look for More Opportunities with Your Current Employer

For employees this is an era of cautious optimism — with neither tantalizing opportunities to create a feverish gold-rush mentality like during the tech boom ...

Career Choices of Elite Asian American Grads

What separates top graduates of elite universities from the rest? More career options. For Asian Americans, there was a time when the engineer/accountant/doctor stereotype contained ...

Hottest Growth Fields for the 21st Century

Start your search for a new career by first considering which fields are experiencing the fastest growth. During the past several decades virtually all the ...

Best Careers for Bi-Lingual Asian Americans

It's hard to believe that fifteen years ago I considered my ability to speak fluent Korean a handicap in my career. Playing up my bi-lingual ...

The 3 Laws of Professional Communications

Spend hours writing well-researched memos that get ignored? Make brilliant suggestions that make people's eyes glaze over? Send magnificent proposals that clients don't read? You ...

Office Politics for Non-Politicians

Brown-nosers, backstabbers and saboteurs get shot down and sent straight to hell. Decent professionals who build their careers on talent, diligence and devotion always end ...

10 Qualities Interviewers Look For Most

Most young job-seekers have a distorted sense of an employer's priorities in making hiring decisions. That's my conclusion after having seen tens of thousands of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to Get on the Management Track — And Stay On

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...