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Last week I came across an interesting article on the chain of events led to General McChrystal’s downfall.
Here is my favorite quote from the article:
As an executive, Obama has little tolerance for what he calls "unforced errors" — mistakes that are entirely preventable. In that regard, McChrystal’s team had committed an unforced error on [...]

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It’s puzzling to a lot of people — my friend Jay is quitting his finance career to get into operational side of a high tech start-up. Jay is a brilliant young financial analyst.
When I use the term “brilliant”, I really mean it.
Two and half years ago, Jay started telling all of his family , friends, [...]

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Today, I would like to share with you part II of Foreign Professional in China series.
I recently interviewed Mr. Robert Yu, who is a fellow Cal Bear and received his MS in Biology from Northwestern. Like Marie Cheng, Robert also took the road less traveled, and got his MBA from Tsinghua University. Robert is currently [...]

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Not everyone is in the position for doing this. But, Let’s say that you’re single, a year or two removed from college, and you could live off savings and family’s support for a year. You have a promising job at a Fortune 500 company. You’re given an opportunity to pursue your dream job. However, there [...]

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When I graduated from college in 1997, I had three job offers:

Job offer #1 was from Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), a large professional service firm.
Job offer #2 was from a medium sized, publicly traded enterprise software company. This company had about 600 employees, and just went public a few years earlier. It was a [...]

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This is a serious problem. It’s more common than you might think.
It’s heart wrenching for the parents and siblings. No matter how accomplished and wealthy they are, they feel powerless in dealing with this problem.
In the past few years, directly and indirectly, I have known several families who are facing this very difficult problem.
All [...]

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A lot of people go through their lives without knowing what they want. I used to be that way myself. As I wrote in your relationship with your parents have a lot to do with your career success, around the time I graduated from college, I came to the painful realization that I didn’t know [...]

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This year marks the tenth year of my career. In other words, not counting the two years of business school, I’ve been slaving away in Corporate America for a decade.
Ten years is a long time. Life is short. Lately, I have been doing a lot of reflection and thinking about the past, present [...]

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A few years ago I attended a seminar taught by a retired executive. He was partner at a major investment bank, served as CEO of a large corporation, and worked in the white house. From a professional standpoint, he was highly successful. Using his own words, "I won the economic game." 
However, his son was [...]

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Don’t set new year resolutions. For most people, it’s a waste of time.
New year resolutions is like the annual planning processes in some companies. You set a number of grand goals. You’re gong-ho about the goals for a few weeks. Then, you get distracted and stop working toward the goals.
Try something new and different [...]

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