Articles
In past 16 years I’ve written 200 + articles and essays about entrepreneurship, work, and business. Some have appeared in the New York Times, Red Herring, Asiaweek and other print publications.
Some that are still available online:
A Message to Those Confused About Career Direction
When Connectivity Breeds Loneliness
Life’s Number One Success Principle
Three Lessons My Students Taught Me
Entrepreneurship Hints from Overseas
Here’s a “Getting Ahead” Secret Already Within Our Grasp
Losing a Job, Reclaiming a Life
A Message of Improvement From Self-Help’s Founding Father
Why We Should Cherish, Rather Than Hide, Our Imperfections
Three Ways You Can Become More Entrepreneurial Now
What The Seeker Ultimately Discovers
Thanks, Bill, for Connecting Our Connections
Why “Multitasking” Slows Productivity — And What To Do about It
Why We Should Contradict Ourselves
Will We Soon Pay to Remain Disconnected?
Three Phrases Men Stumble Over — Yet Women Long to Hear
Time to Give In, Time to Give Up
The One Place You’ll Always Be Indispensable
Why Businesspeople Speak Like Idiots
Time to Give In, Time to Give Up
How to Decide If You Should Become an Entrepreneur
Remarkable Handheld Devices Transport Users Far Beyond Computing
Why a Multimillionaire Businessman Took a Beginner’s Class in Entrepreneurship
Get a Load of This CRAP™ in 2009
Ten Soul-Affirming Messages for 2009
Please Buy Our Paper-Printed Book
A Message to Those Aspiring to Blend Meaning and Money
An Uncommon Way to Express the Real You
One Way to Fix a Dysfunctional Workspace
Quiz: Are You the Entrepreneurial “Type”?
One Way to Protect Your Soul in a Wired Age
A Soul-Satisfying, Two-Step Approach to Career Transition for 2009
The Surprising Truth About Why People Become Entrepreneurs
Why “Time Management” is Nonsense—And What You Can Do About It
Entrepreneurship: Why It’s Not about You
Soaring Success, Devastating Failure: A Samurai’s Story
In Praise of Salaried Employment
Make This Year’s Decisions Stick with This Simple Secret
The Office Worker’s Guide to Staying Swamped
For Entrepreneurs Starting with Nothing, Here’s the Ultimate Strategy
How to Create Wealth, How to Keep Wealth
How to Start Unplugging From a Plugged-in Job
Knuckling Down to the Hard Work of Writing
Making Money: The Right and Wrong Questions to Ask
The Truth About Quitting and other winners
The Soul of an Entrepreneur, the DNA of a Business
Twenty-Seven Years of Zen Destroyed My Life
Four Simple Steps to Getting Fit
How to Go Solo Without a “Big Idea”
Three Questions Seekers Must Ask Themselves
Pursuing Fortune and Fulfillment with Blogger Extraordinaire J.D. Roth
Three Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting My Own Business
Failure: A better teacher than success
Opting Out of the Deferred Life Plan
Billionaire Lessons in Prosperity-Building
Can We Really Change? Yes and No …
Changing Scenes with the Law of Requisite Variety
Daunting Task? Learn to Whip It
Here’s to Success Finding ‘How to Succeed’ Books
Understanding the World Through the Thomas Theorem
Recognizing the Opportunity Within
My Search for the Bushido in George W. Bush
Eight Difficult, Outdated Ways to Excel
The Weight of Compensation, the Lightness of Contentment
Want to Achieve Your Goal? Avoid E-Mail!
Four Simple Steps to Getting Fit
Happiness is Turning Off the Computer
The Four-Letter Question for 2008
Health Insurance for the Poor—and the Prosperous
What We Really Need to be Happy
Clark’s Option Theory: Making the Most of Opportunity
Business Practice Arbitrage as a Success Factor in Service Sector
Entrepreneurship by Foreigners in Japan (Presented by Carl Kay at AJBS/AIB conference May 2005)
It will take more than this to turn Sony around
International Herald Tribune
Out of Service
New York Times
Paka Paka Girls
Asiaweek
Invasion Mode
Asiaweek
Wrong Number
Asiaweek
Banner Advertising in Japan — a Primer for Buyers
Computing Japan
Inside Internet Marketing
World Trade Magazine