Contexts by Margaret M. Chin | December 27, 2020 A panoramic view of Miami Marlins Park. (Photo by David Aughinbaugh II. Source: Flickr, CC) Kim Ng’s rise to General Manager of the Florida Marlins is a tremendous accomplishment. Her route getting there is typical of the 103 Asian American professionals and leaders I interviewed for my book Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder. Ng is superbly overprepared, like many women and people of color before her. What gets them to the top is to be trusted. Like my interviewees, she had to do two times the work just to get half as far. Ng was the youngest Assistant General Manager in 1995, the first woman to argue arbitration and win three world series rings. But this job was 30 years in the making. In fact, she should have been a General Manager 15 years ago. In 2005 she was interviewed by the Los Angeles Dodgers for General Manager but didn’t get the position. She was then considered for GM at the Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, Anaheim Angels and San Francisco Giants. All these positions went to men.