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Dr. B.C. Sun Copyright © 2007 B.C.

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Reflections of an Economic Strategist & China Advisor

I was born and bred of Shanghainese and Indonesian-Singaporean parents in full-score orien-
tal classics and dialects but otherwise within very limited means in a small Chinese village. I
graduated from college in America and Europe, began my career on Wall Street, New York,
and moved on to work in Southeast Asia, Beijing, London, and Logan in the next three dec-
ades. Ever since I was a small child, I have had the privilege of receiving first-class training on
joyfully turning resource scarcity and crisis situations into opportunities for innovation. I owe
my accomplished to the Creator. He gave me the experience of a well-travelled executive at
the world’s leading financial institutions and strategy consulting firm. I am also blessed with
being able to utilize all of my former training and capabilities in my current role as an eco-
nomic advisor, social entrepreneur, and catalyst of positive change in economic living.

My expertise and passions include: (1) Global Business and Profit Optimization Strategy; (2)
Leadership Development; (3) Chinese Immersion in Business and Education; (4) Character
Education through Sciences, Arts and Humanities and (5) Economic Behavior Reform Strategy.

As a world citizen and an executive-turned “society scholar” my goal is to be able to anticipate


and respond to the challenges of society. I do so by being an advocate of "Positive Psychology
of Threat", an economic motivation theory I developed and tested in my international award-
winning PhD thesis on Motivation under Uncertainty and Risks. The theory applies not only in
transitional economy such as China, but also in what I refer to as “new transitional economy,”
i.e. an advanced economy drifting from marketization toward a socialist incentive system.

American society has become a society in debt for a multiplicity of reasons. Fortunately, it is
also a society that has become more diverse than any other in modern history. By viewing it as
a resource, individuals and organizational leaders can help cultivate diversity as a source of
competitiveness. And by getting ourselves out of debt we can help the nation get out of debt.
My mission in these respects is to help create high-impact innovations and engage widespread
support to promote economic self-reliance as the rock and diversity, the sling, in enabling
individuals and groups to more confidently contribute at all levels of society and in all sectors
of economy. In adopting a positive psychology of threat, individuals, families, and organiza-
tions can all exercise the freedom and choice of making a difference despite and in the face of
uncertainty, when we are reminded that we need one another to become stronger and better.

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