tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80974062024-03-07T13:14:52.371+07:00www.imamwahyudi.com::Just a cup of thoughts, and you are all invited to brew::Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-57979679885379031262016-12-15T11:13:00.000+07:002017-06-22T14:26:57.257+07:00Chronoscopic Sphere<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is so easy to get dragged on routines and to let the routines -a chronoscopic sphere embodied with justification of work life balance- absorb the time like a sponge. It is like passing through a wormhole and suddenly you are popped one space continuum far away from the attended observed reality in the pass.<br />
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It seems like yesterday when this blog was last written, also seems like yesterday when the hosting of this blog was over and the service provider had to put it down because I was so forgot to extend it. Now that this is up again, I was wondering to myself...where have I been? Why I never write again. What have absorbed my time continuum all this long? What act that I had pretended this long? Where did I buried my soul...<br />
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So now that the blog has again up and running, and seems my net consciousness started to wake up and I may start to not giving a damn of what people will think to what I write, it just might that I will reboot this blog in this overly crowded world of netizen population. It was easy to get top rank in google to search for my self, the good old days.<br />
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Maybe good Idea to revamp the website, will see on this year end. New year is coming....<br />
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<br />Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-36163928961116331012015-05-12T12:24:00.003+07:002015-05-12T12:24:36.195+07:00Finding your Mjolinir, unleash the power within<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>What will happen to the atmosphere when the earth lose its gravity? What will happen to matter when it collide with its hypocrite antimatter? What will happen when waves no longer creates vibration, no longer create a reversal movement?</i><br />
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If you like Marvel, you will know about Mjolinir: the very hammer of almighty Thor. It said only those with pure heart and passion will be able to lift it and wield the ultimate infinite power from the Mjolinir, the Godly Hammer. Talking about passion, have you take a look again of your life goal recently? To be honest, I did not...not in a very long time...I meant like more than the date of the previous blog post.<br />
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Life sometime work like a mechanical clock. Tick tock tick tock. Well maybe clock with auto time update. Or more like a plane with autopilot, or like Dandelion Flower fly with the gushing wind. The life goal was defined years ago when we are in college and naive, then as a pilot we are enjoying too much to see the panoramic view on the go, or too busy to take care of a whirlwind during stormy day.<br />
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We see some of our colleague maneuvering to built the very start building block of their destiny. They seems very passionate about the their dream, pour all their energy, actively seeking chances to be faster, to grow bigger. Either they are entrepreneur, professional jumper, religious heaven seeker, education teacher or others. Some of them found their Mjolinir, and unleashing the power within with tenacity for the passion.<br />
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I need to find my Mjolinir again. To wield it, To do in a field that I am really good at, or at least I think I am good at it. Maybe I need to write more, maybe I need to finish my novel, maybe I need to design an apps that change the world, a financial modelling that worth Noble price, or maybe I just need to go for my doctorate degree. Maybe I need to start building pieces of pieces to something that will be a lifetime Masterpiece, a Legacy.<br />
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<i>...or maybe I just need my lunch now...already hungry...not enough sugar in your brain can make you think in delusion...</i><br />
<br />Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-88915154795687635902014-01-26T03:15:00.000+07:002014-01-26T03:16:21.464+07:00Revive | Are You the Smartest Person in the Room?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was thinking going back to school for an MBA -a title that I wrote behind my name during my elementary school- will fire my wits to write more, but apparently was not. So many insights to be retold and was tickling my brain, but my writing had become so academic and paper style. Worsen by projects with many legal contracting, and structured binding email conversation - my free style writing was literally fully destroyed, and so some of myself ^_^<br />
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Well, I am alive again. Rock bottom is a solid foundation to rebuild, said Rowling. I am alive and ready to kick, to become myself again with freedom of speech and concise direction to act in things that I believe is the right thing to do in life.<br />
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Happy New Year 2014 to all, and enjoy a good recent article from Jack Welch below (as I am still mentally blocked to write my own article again :-D).<br />
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<i style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 20px;">The best thing that can happen to you as a boss is hiring a person who is smarter, more creative, or in some way more talented than you are. It’s like winning the lottery. Suddenly you’ve got a team member whose talent will very likely improve everyone’s performance and reputation. Including yours.</i><br />
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<i>Yes, it’s human nature to feel fearful that a “superior” employee could make you look, well, inferior, and perhaps slow down your career progress. But in reality, the exact opposite usually occurs.<br /><br />The reason is that leaders are generally not judged on their personal output. What would be the point of evaluating them like individual contributors? Rather, most leaders are judged on how well they’ve hired, coached, and motivated their people, individually and collectively—all of which shows up in the results. That’s why when you sign up top performers and release their energy, you don’t look bad. You look like the goose that laid the golden egg.<br /><br />So keep laying them. It is a rare company that doesn’t love a boss who finds great people and creates an environment where they flourish. And you don’t have to be the smartest person in the room to do that. Indeed, when you consistently demonstrate that leadership skill and come to be known as the person in your company who can land and build the best, watch your career take off.<br /><br />Now, we’re not saying managing “superior” employees on your team is necessarily easy. We received a question from an audience member at a speech in Chicago several years ago who said two of his seven direct reports were smarter than he was. He asked: “How can I possibly appraise them?”<br /><br />“What the heck happened to the other five?” was our attempt at a lighthearted response. But we took his point.</i></div>
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Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-68076875212067144412012-09-24T00:19:00.000+07:002013-06-28T10:48:33.460+07:00Legacy | It's all what (should) matters in career<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>What is a career? Your prominent answer probably that it is an achievement of life or a representation of our success. We work everyday and doing best efforts hoping all of those will increase the probability of having a better career path in the future; and in return hope for better rewards that will give us more power to engine our life happiness. </i></div>
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Good career path is the reason of most talented people to join a big company. It provides a wide opportunity for any talent to channel their passion for career, a training scheme for their competence development and a competitive environment that mostly suit with those who think they can always win. Big company enjoy the benefit of having best talents. In this world of efficiency, best talents define company success to overcome the competition and sustain their profit growth. </div>
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After few years, some talents will realize that not every of them can advance further to the top of the pyramid. Sometime the winning edge is not only hard work or good performance. Even all of them give their best performance, the available slot above is diminishing by a factor of exponential. When the competitive environment is so tight, office politic and favor become part of the game. Some talents start to considering their option to stay in the game, or to play in other field where their probability to win is more certain. </div>
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In a growing economic environment like Indonesia these days, business run pretty much well. Companies need more talents to engine their growth while the growth of qualified person are limited. A war of talents period is now coming to its peak. Headhunters are everywhere, social media like LinkedIn created an open market that treated professional like stock exchanges with an e-bay closed auction pricing mechanism.<br />
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While it is (was perhaps) normal in Europe or US to move between job for better career, the old wisdom in Indonesia is still job security and lifetime employment. That was how our parent taught us. But now the easiest way to go vertical up of the pyramid is already changing. When you can not wait until some slot is available in your ceiling, the open market offers a shortcut given your competences is sufficient. Not only that, often the rewards is promising. A competitors will gladly double your rewards that you get if you jump in to their team, with higher position than before. Even among different industries, a 50% top up is likely standard for an immediate sign up.</div>
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Then it is not rare this days in Indonesia to see professional jump from one company to another. While 5 years back then was considered as short term and opportunistic, nowadays is already considered as long timer. And when their peer see those not "loyal" <i>jumper</i> in fact yield a better career after years of the same hard work the value of "loyal" is somehow questioned...</div>
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Big and reputable companies will mostly not effected with this phenomena. They will always attract fresh best talents from best university in Indonesia every year, train them in house and they will be ready within few years of working to fill the slot left by those jumper. Also with the good Knowledge Management, the know how of the business is stay within the company, not within the employee. They are stored in remaining leaders, in the the documents, and training modules. The rate of knowledge that leave is not significant than the rate of re-creation of knowledge within the company.</div>
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But in a growing companies -not necessarily less in size- the know how of the business is mostly still inside their professional's head. As the business is growing the company put more focus on the development of the company size and profit. The talent development system is not well establish enough to generate sufficient talents and create the knowledge inside the company; and they also sometime hijack from others. When the business is very know-how specific, loosing one head can be a business disaster. In the other hand, to prevent loosing people by raising the compensation may also jeopardize the measured business growth, mostly when your company is measured by EVA ;-)</div>
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In a lucrative and high barrier to entry business like Palm Oil and its downstream, the available know-how versus the demand is getting more extreme. The competition for people is no longer grade A, but even to grade B. And how to destroy a growing company in such business? Easy, just take the few leaders with the most knowledge. And there will be chaos...(yes, there will be blood...)</div>
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Then is it a crime to become a jumper and take benefit of the this war of talents? Is it a crime to have a rare knowledge and bargain for it? Well, the famous Joker said "If you are really good in something, never do it for free". No one will say it is a crime. Some even say your job is not your career. It's a privilege. But then, if the company has to suffer when somebody jump (in business terms off course), then it also does not seem right. Although it is more to the company's lack of knowledge and risk management that allows this thing become a disaster.</div>
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In my naive mind, a good professional should create legacy in their career state. The contribution of a professional should not only measured in financial benefit to the company while he is there, but also for their effect to the organizational development. A legacy is there when the value creation by a person reach its sustainable growth and will not shrink just because he leave the company. That will mean the professional has developed the system, the people and the knowledge for the company that it will grow better on its own, even later without him. Some people is afraid to do so, because they fear of loosing their job and try the best to make the company depend on them. </div>
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When the legacy is there, then it is a matter of choice. A fair choice. Those who focus in legacy, usually put their passion in it and mostly they will finish the dream before starting a new one. But if the legacy is not there when you leave -either move or retirement- then you are a type of not worthy professional. You took more than you give and only care about yourself.</div>
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Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-68204442224035992632012-05-07T16:04:00.002+07:002012-10-14T22:21:44.540+07:00The pearls of the company | People<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>More and more great companies mention people as their greatest assets behind the company great success. The right people. The talent within. Can we become one of them?</i><br />
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A decade ago the business secret recipe of the business giant was the "special magic" adopted by the company. In automotive industry giant we heard the super efficient Toyota Production System, with a lot of magic word like Jidoka, Kaizen, Andon, and others Japanese word excluding Ozawa. In the western manufacturing giant we heard about Six Sigma, with the practice of taking advanced statistical class and belting system from White, Green to Black Belt (I don't mean to be cynical, I am also a Black Belt :D). There were a lot more of it like TQM, TPM, Lean System, BPRe, etc.<br />
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But as the those best practices management tools now become common knowledge, taught in every business school, and delivered world wide by consultant companies, these system nowadays has became generic, saturated, not much space to do a leap frog improvement. When you are holding a sword fighting against bare hand people, the sword is your cutting edge. But what if everyone now hold the same swords?<br />
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I just notice lately, the recent business book no longer talks about this mambo jambo. Off course there is still updates of these management system, these skill sets and tool sets or rewrapping/reassortment of these knowledge. For example, I like the whole concepts of Jim Collins book: the Good to Great series are simple but very true; The Execution Premium by Kaplan, a sequel of the Balance Score Card system is also worth to read. Or the Marketing 3.0 by our marketing guru, Hermawan Kartajaya. For those company who have not come to that stage (or even never heard that) adopting the best practice platform is always a good as a starter leap.<br />
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I just read lately the business book are no longer focusing to the updates of management platform. But, to the people behind it, the spirit behind it, those right people, the talents...<br />
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More and more books redefined the story of the great success of the company in people perspective. The Talent Master: Why Smart Leaders put People before Numbers (Bill Conaty, Ram Charan) emphasize that not only the Six Sigma boosted the GE performance but also the "right people" who hold the swords. The book also describe how right/wrong people defines the journey of many companies. In an extreme, the book said talent is the leading indicator of a business is up and down, a success or a failure. "Talent" is the new redefined word for human asset, the company greatest intangible assets.<br />
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In the Good to Great by Jim Collins, the first thing in the morning for the company who leap from Good to Great (magnificent company stock values growth versus market growth) are not the business strategy, but the leaders (The Level 5 Leaders), then the right people on the right bus, and the culture within. The business strategy come after the people, not the other way around. It also shows how the wrong people create wrong culture, leading to company crash.<br />
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Also in Toyota, the latest book emphasize Toyota Production System is merely tools, the cutting edge come from the people behind it, and the system to create the great people continuously (Toyota Talent, Jeffrey Liker, David Meier, 2009). And without the right people, without the right culture, TPS will only create chaos in the manufacturing process. Many european and US based manufacturing company tried to imitate TPS, but fail because they cant imitate the person/the culture.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From the first chicken who teaches..</span></b><br />
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For those company who always able to create the great people, we sometime say it is because the culture. The question is: Is the culture create good people, or good people creates good culture? No matter how we argues we will always go back to square one: Chicken vs Eggs. I my self believe that God created chicken, not egg first. Why? because egg cannot learn and egg cannot teach. Even egg finally hatch, who will teach the hatched chicken to live? I believe at first good people created the great culture, and the great culture later creates the great people.<br />
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We see it in most of the giants, how the leader shape the culture of the company: Honda in Honda Motor Corp, Jack Welch in GE, Steve Jobs in Apple, Toyoda n Toyota, William Soeryajaya in Astra, to name few. In the Good to Great book, companies who become great mostly have the same pattern of "quantum leap" moment. And it was all started by a level 5 leaders. This level 5 leaders are the source of the company values, the enabler of the culture, the living sample to shape the future, the Inspirational.<br />
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So the culture of a company is not a result of evolution -that it happens because random interaction of the people- but deliberately designed by the great leaders. It meant to be like that, it was visioned, and deliberately and systematically implemented. It was created from the beginning, in the end of mind of the leaders. They are the first chicken who teaches the hatch ling how to live as a great chicken. They are...the source of the culture itself.<br />
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So right people are first. Those great talents, will lead the company through any initiatives that the company would like to go. Those talents are resonances of company aspiration. What defines a person is talents or not? GE use 4E1P (Energy, Energize, Execution, Edge, Passion), some company use 3C (Character, Competence, Chemistry), some others use their own HR matrix.<br />
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And as the concept of Talent become world wide accepted, this rare chicken are now treasured at most. Big company spent thousands of dollar hiring a great leaders that can hatch another great chicken. Talent Development Program become hot topic in HR practice. If they can not develop them self then hijacking is the most favorable option.<br />
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The bad side is this talents are now realize that company value them as gems. Talents become greed, salary jumper and tends to be not long timer. Some of them lost the virtue of passion and genuineness and will work to the highest offer.<br />
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How to become a considered talent? I don't even know if my company regards me as talent or not :p But from several training and books, it is said that a talents is either gifted or trained. Again, born leaders vs trained leaders controversy, nature vs nurture. But if you are not inherited those great traits from your parents, then one thing for sure you must go to train your self more than those who had.<br />
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Somebody just born as pearl, they are just beautiful and valuable as is with not much improvement needed. But the most beautiful diamond come from the highest pressure and temperature underneath the earth. To become a shiny one, it must deal with painful heat, stress and drills.<br />
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<i>So, unless you considered yourself as black coal which only serve as burner feed, go find and drill the gems within yourself. It's painful, but in the future it will worth the price..</i><br />
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P.S: That's why I go back to school again now ;-)<br />
<br />Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-15003158854564197182011-12-17T18:40:00.001+07:002012-01-03T09:54:09.659+07:00Creativity | The new black of competition<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>Indonesia has a new title in the phone business: "<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/31/technology-indonesia-rim-blackberry.html" target="_blank">The Blackberry Nation</a>". It was notably mentioned during the <a href="http://gadjade.com/2011/11/blackberry-curve-9790-bellagio-launch-event-in-indonesia-went-crazy-resulted-to-stampede-dozens-were-injured" target="_blank">launching of Blackberry Bellagio</a>, first in the world, in Indonesia, causing a massive mass assembly <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12/05/rim-indonesia-stampede.html" target="_blank">leading into a stampede</a>. Indonesia is a country with biggest Blackberry users. An interesting label, as we remember that 5 years ago this kind of product was never exist at all in Indonesia.</i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The constant changing customer behavior...</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Business</span> incumbents may miss the old days, the day when their technology enough to dominate the market, when they just had to focus on the product development, efficient manufacturing, pushing the product with vast marketing, selling the product to the customer. But nowadays, customer decision is not only based on highest technology, price, or ads only. They seek a customized value proposition from a product that will serve what they need. And the real problem is...sometime customers don't know what they really need.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><i><b>"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new." (Steve Jobs)</b></i></span></blockquote>
Old school management said business need to know what customer want, but Steve Jobs rejects that idea and emphasize instead that business have to know what customer need. It should know how the customer think, it need to feel the customers experience, the user experience; it need to connect what is the missing values that customer will need; and then bring a product or service that surpass the expectation and then tell them : <i>"This is what you want, this is what you need"</i>. This exhausting process need one key word from producers, "Creativity".<br />
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Creativity and local wisdom understanding, bring Blackberry into winner in Indonesia, for now; and bring Apple as the champion in the world. Leaving all the incumbents who are now struggling, trying to maintain the old days victory, or setting back into their R&D labs to prepare a comeback with a new proposition, if possible. Good luck Nokia..good luck IBM...<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fcfefe; color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Think Different...</span></i></span><br />
Talking about creativity, we definitely should note the Apple resurrection. As <a href="http://allaboutstevejobs.com/bio/short/short.html" target="_blank">Steve Jobs</a><span id="goog_975388784"></span><span id="goog_975388785"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a> returned to Apple to lead the company who fired him 10 years before, he redefine how creativity can be the ultimate cutting edge of a business. It is not only redefining the product, but the whole business model giving Apple the sustainable profit ever.<br />
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iPod is not the first MP3 Player in the market, but combining the user demand with music industry demand he revolutionized how a user can buy their favorite songs without have to buy a whole CD in affordable prices, with iTunes. iPod is now leading MP3 player in the world and iTunes revolutionized the music industry with revenues more than ever.<br />
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iPhone and iPad share the same success. It is not only the product designs, but the whole user experience and from Apple side, the cash generating machine by selling third party application and telecommunication operator shared revenue based on the uses of the device. The profit does not come by selling product only, but more of it, the after sales. Again, creativity revolutionized the market.<br />
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Steve Jobs regard himself more to an artist, and encourage all of his team in apple that they are all artists. Thus, every product was brought to customer thoughtfully, artistically, and in the edge of perfections, surpassing what customer want. Now that he is passed way, Apple must insist how to keep the creativity environment stays in Apple. Or their competitors will take the crown<br />
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<i style="background-color: #fcfefe; color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Creativity : Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal ...</span></i><br />
Being creative is mostly referred to create a new ideas, invent, break through, etc. Everyone said you must have something original, genuine ideas, to be different with other ideas. That is okay, if you can. But please, we are living in the modern era when everything is already invented in every aspect of our life, from the classic invention of light bulb to the invention of cotton bud for your ear.<br />
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We don't have to try to reinvent the wheel, Greek did that hundred years ago. We just need to connect the ideas, gathering the experiences, and try to make it better. Most inventions were in parallel invented by other person, and most leading business nowadays are not the inventor of the business.<br />
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But if the inventor, the first one who though of it didn’t make things good enough, then steve jobs gave us a golden rule to follow: “Good artists copy, great artists steal”. What’s the big difference between both you say?<br />
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<b>People who copy create duplicates.</b> They adjust a little, tweak a little, but overall, it’s just the same thing. If you where the buyer and given the choice between the original and the duplicate, who would you choose? Of course, you’d still stick to the original. Even if the price difference would be a huge figure, the original would still be the winner. No one, and I mean no one, would like to settle for a ‘copy’. </blockquote>
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<b>People who steal are in to create a bigger game- their own game.</b> Steve Jobs is not the first one to invent a laptop or even an operating system (say hi to Bill Gates). But he was creative. He saw where Microsoft Inc. fall short (in terms of the feel of their hardware and the massive vulnerability of their OS) and decided to make things even better. </blockquote>
And as you read those two paragraph above, those are a copy from <a href="http://www.betterbloggingforbloggers.com/2010/02/within-few-days-id-be-really-so-busy-in.html" target="_blank">Liane's article</a>. And the part when I steal it, is when connecting those line with the whole story. Also the quotes “Good artists copy, great artists steal” is a Picasso, but the popularity was "stolen" as of Steve Jobs ;-)<br />
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Now, when we go to mall to find electronic goods few years ago, you will find a lot of duplicate of leading products, mainly from China. We might not want to buy it, it is cheap, not genuine, and low quality. But as China shifted from "copy" into "steal", we already see few China product with Apple quality. Not duplicate, but equally better and off course, cheaper. The New Apple Spirit will raise from China.<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">And it is on people, on talent, on company culture...</span></i></b><br />
And the core of the creativity lays on the people behind it. It takes creativity leadership, to combine the hierarchical management and a creative business environment. Some company may think their business is not creativity based, and maintain the old school management style that serve them profit for years.<br />
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But, soon or later, the more creative competitor will take the edge. When the business environment changes, what matters will also change. And those company with creative environment will fast enough to adapt, to change the business model, and take the lead on the changes. While those who are not, may laid back, and only realizes the need for changes, when it is all too late...<br />
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<i>Just as my Blackberry is getting old fashioned, slow, and error all the time, may be I should buy a new one. And the option is only two, a new Blackberry or a new iPhone. Or maybe a China product. Waiting who of them, are the most creative to serve my needs...</i>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-22820496110679407002011-10-06T20:23:00.007+07:002012-10-14T22:21:44.536+07:00R.I.P | Steve Jobs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggn00OG3u0ybL3KJdtmZOOYN0Luyx88VWYRGsA117QhpS2J3TejVyvfAs9e7CMwJh0AVr-PT0IIdDrl94J7oavjm-49vKBmnvcRxY7HKatAHEUK15xVuIofKnt37bKPzpt0RGRtg/s1600/SteveJobs_imamwahyudi.com+2.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggn00OG3u0ybL3KJdtmZOOYN0Luyx88VWYRGsA117QhpS2J3TejVyvfAs9e7CMwJh0AVr-PT0IIdDrl94J7oavjm-49vKBmnvcRxY7HKatAHEUK15xVuIofKnt37bKPzpt0RGRtg/s400/SteveJobs_imamwahyudi.com+2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660371479137014466" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Stay hungry, stay foolish...</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Many blogs wrote about the lost of the biggest CEO in the last five decades; many mourn to the lost of someone they only know that he is the inventors of their cool earphone music player, or their angry birds Phone, or their fancy thin gaming tablet; but may be few have known the inspiring story, the bullish character, the dreamer, the visionary, the inspiration, the greatness of the technology genius of this century: the late Steve Jobs.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Feel free to come by and visit <a href="http://allaboutstevejobs.com/">http://allaboutstevejobs.com</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I am not going to retold the whole story. When I heard the news, it was surprising, but not really shocking. I've heard his health is not so good, but just not expecting to hear now when my daughter always waiting me home to play with the latest gadget his creation : watching HUTOS series in iPad.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I just want to note this day - the Man of Inspiration of many technology freak, many brave entrepreneur, many creative director, or just someone like me, has passed away with peace. I just want to note this day - that maybe I should listen to him : to not waste my time anymore living in someone else's life....</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>"Your time is limited, so don't waste your time living in someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others opinion drawn out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Everything else is secondary..." (Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011)</i></div>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-25757665747940737992011-06-14T14:49:00.012+07:002011-06-14T16:30:49.332+07:00Rush out | Not only loosing talents<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilklIQO9EU-JJxN0gcrD9drxNEU8PUeGIn9z-ANnRNM0KnMk03TyRRbvsR_Kh7o8E_ME2t0Hrzg4addT6vLrLEBWpkb24LHsRFKnoT3mnhQ_LTZcctQZwFYLWZB1LskEQCjIb06Q/s1600/Blogpost_06June_RushOut_imamwahyudi.com_2011.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilklIQO9EU-JJxN0gcrD9drxNEU8PUeGIn9z-ANnRNM0KnMk03TyRRbvsR_Kh7o8E_ME2t0Hrzg4addT6vLrLEBWpkb24LHsRFKnoT3mnhQ_LTZcctQZwFYLWZB1LskEQCjIb06Q/s400/Blogpost_06June_RushOut_imamwahyudi.com_2011.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617998559321053730" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The rushing out euphoria...</b></div>This might feels familiar to you: "When one of your colleague --or friend at work, or peer manager, or even your director -- resign and move to other company with better position, then the heart beat of the organisation surround it would be temporarily in 'anxious' mode". It will be worst when it's not only one or two, it will feel more tense when it is a talent pool hijack, it will more breath taking when it's a structural rushing out.<div><br /></div><div>People are silently reconsider, gossips are spreading, blackberry or cell phone become more valuable than key car waiting for another call or another news or even...another possible offer. Within these days, Human Resource Dept will be busy calculating the possible investment lost that they have done for several years.</div><div><br /></div><div>The fact that one started this moment and usually to be followed by series of others is a logical phenomenon. Because when their work mate moved to better position and huge salary, those people who stay sometime reconsider their choices, then try their luck by sending CV's. Some of them get it, some of them not. Then rush out cycle happened...then after a period of anxiety...it will pass...become more calm... and everything is back to normal again....At least until somebody started the cycle again.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>...is not only causing talents lost..but more..</b></div><div>During this HR Dept may days, not only the company loose their talents that they have been trying to manage and to invest, but also the euphoria effect during these period is a cancer to employees' commitment to stay. They think that if he/she can, why not I - they reconsider their choice to stay.</div><div><br /></div><div>During these period then justifications are discussed, all the negatives of the company are become lunch break topic while they forgot what the positive things that company have done. The discussion enlarging when the people who already disappointed with the company take more role. Then in the end, in every mind....they are suspicious..that if they don't do it..than their friend might do it. It will get worst when it happened over and over.</div><div><br /></div><div>This euphoria again, is a high stadium cancer, to employee loyalty and organization performance.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>So, the company to blame?...not really...</b></div><div>Make no mistake, company with high rate of rushing out does not necessarily a bad company who did not recognize their talent. You can name best talent development company like Citibank (yes, they did manage good assets, MD for example), Astra (me! me!), or Danamon Bank. Yet, some of them are ironically the most potential company with the rushing out ratio, because of hijacking. One trainer told me when he give series strategic training to different banks in Indonesia he usually met the same person, means...those talent moved to one another.</div><div><br /></div><div>The most hijacked company is perceived by the pirates/hijackers as a company with high quality talent, a good value and working culture, and a good people development program. The hijackers see that hijacking person from these company are off course cheaper than to train a new person for years to get the same competence, working culture and character.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Talents are hard to get, but when they are yours, then you can bet the performance and the future of the company with them. But don't forget...they are also still have option.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Then, why they go...</b></div><div>May be I am wrong, but I see that is because their character and competences are already developed enough, sufficient to get a higher position or bigger responsibility - but the talent competition within, or the rigid structure, or the development of the company does not provide enough challenge and opportunity for everyone to grow. So no body's mistake...it's how the life goes...always balancing.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Not all folks...</b></div><div>Well, Astra, in the other hand, are one of the company who always have good talents, good people development, good culture - yet, they can maintain most of their talent even until retirement. Are they paying big salary? hmmm..not really. So how they do it? Well again, if you are one of them -or formerly one of them- you will know how :-)</div><div><br /></div><div>So, should 'you' go also? Well folks, not all those rushing out end happily ever after. That you are now lived in the well structured, caring and appreciating work environment may indulge you that out there offers the same. While actually, out there...when structure is less or even none...survival of the fittest will take role. If you don't survive...then you'll be a prey. Those people who left Astra for rest of their life may think Astra have the most convenient working experience. The feel of protected, secured...is indeed a basic human need.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Well, my dear colleague talents, then beware of the those pirates...they may offer gold...but if you meet someone like Captain Jack Sparrow...he will leave you for shark feed for his own benefit. </i></div>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-58119488953962041812011-06-03T16:55:00.007+07:002011-06-21T22:46:00.101+07:00Chemistry | The x factor of performance<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRB-hv4j1eLi4O02jJy7b1-BgCqdZAApZ3b-uLzvHJ4iaItZcc43YKa_-B5mO_2g9La7CwyFzztK-PqWmZQDLamOxWmH0m6pXFp4iF1ddhRXmSwarQwC9Z7yd2aFAepG3tZ2O5iw/s1600/Blogpost_Chemistry_imamwahyudi.com_June_2011.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRB-hv4j1eLi4O02jJy7b1-BgCqdZAApZ3b-uLzvHJ4iaItZcc43YKa_-B5mO_2g9La7CwyFzztK-PqWmZQDLamOxWmH0m6pXFp4iF1ddhRXmSwarQwC9Z7yd2aFAepG3tZ2O5iw/s400/Blogpost_Chemistry_imamwahyudi.com_June_2011.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613952035600196354" /></a><div><b>Ole..ole...ole...!!</b></div>About two weeks ago, football euforia stroke Jakarta again - bars and restaurant performed big screen TV shows and always full . This time it was not Irfan bachdim as hot topic, but the Messiah and friends. Yeah, it was BARCELONA played against MU in the Champion final. It seemed like they taught MU how to play pass and go, excellence team work and we all notice how they beat them beautifully.<div><br /></div><div>What we see is not only individual performance of the Messiah, but more to team performance. Barcelona is not collecting mega star and compile it to Galactic like Real Madrid. But they develop and maximize their player talent, build the chemistry and Voila! each of them becoming a superstar. They deliver better than those with expensive stars but without chemistry in playing.</div><div><br /></div><div>When Messi played in Argentina in World Cup, the star did not shine at all. Why?...my opinion is his team mate were competing with him, they did not regard Messi as a superstar and trying to prove that they can also do what Messi do. It was not their fault, but it just creating bad chemistry within. While they could instead support each other, and still everyone would perform well and showed their class. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>The victory of team play..</b></div><div>Most of the top performing companies have excellent human resource in it. Each deliver their excellences, sinergize, and the company received the operational excellent as a return. But does not mean that when you collect multiple talent into a team, they will straightly deliver excellent. Some of them ended in unnecessary politics that more to distract the team performance rather than enchancing. Especially when personal egos, and competitiveness take more role rather than the common goal.</div><div><br /></div><div>So before decide upon adding new star to the team, the first question shall be is the star will be able to play as team or more to individual performances. A star will always try to perform best, they have experience and have the past of glory on their life. A company should put the star in a position that they can perform, to put them in the bench will only detonating a time bomb.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>...is more to chemistry, not just individual quality</b></div><div>I just like the term used by one of most admirable business man in Indonesia regarding recruiting a new talent or treating the talent within. He said the most important thing are the gimmick of 3 C (compare to 4E and 1P by Jack Welch) :</div><div><br /></div><div>- Character, how it suit with company values</div><div>- Competences, how it suit with the job they do</div><div>- Chemistry, how they suit with others</div><div><br /></div><div>Most of stars have the first two, but not necessarily the third. Of course, if the person is Christiano Ronaldo then who will cares about chemistry as long as he scores a lot. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>But then again, how much will Christiano Ronaldo cost?</i></b></div>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-32353568377054949832011-05-14T23:34:00.011+07:002011-06-03T18:26:44.002+07:00New Dream - New Thrill - Rebranding?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigfNQNizzVF30NlTMnouseDRqHo1BsSUQdQJMoiA7EdZ7fQWjuattNcGLsNvHN6iDlauniWXibAto8vQfeElHdDG9B6ZeQI-A5gmi0i27Zu_hQrtruAKkBmRbQj2wAFQVtK3xjpg/s1600/Newbrand_imamwahyudi.com_May_2011.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigfNQNizzVF30NlTMnouseDRqHo1BsSUQdQJMoiA7EdZ7fQWjuattNcGLsNvHN6iDlauniWXibAto8vQfeElHdDG9B6ZeQI-A5gmi0i27Zu_hQrtruAKkBmRbQj2wAFQVtK3xjpg/s400/Newbrand_imamwahyudi.com_May_2011.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606621056075723426" /></a><b>Never let go your Eureka...or apples..</b><br /><div>In every moment of your life you will find a point when you are inspired by something. Either from a good book, meeting with someone admirable or even just after watching an X-Men movies. This point can be something -- for Mahatma Gandhi when he was pushed out from a train because of his skin, or Bill Gates when he admired Steve Job's invention in Macintosh--or for us, can be nothing. We sometime be inspired for one day,and just forget the other day, drowned in a routine task and job.<div><br /></div><div>Well, let say I meet another tipping point. And at least I can do now is a make over of this blog. Reactivate, rejuvenate, reshape. Or what Chris Taylor special word is...REBRANDING. </div><div><br /></div><div>So Voila, this is my new blog shape now. Shifted from green to dark years ago, when mafia games and dark novel dominates my leisure time; when I was put a stigma of myself as Illidan the betrayer, the man who sold his soul for greater good; when Lucifer lurked in my shadow. And now let just do it with white. Blow away the dark cloud. (what are you talking about, dudes, LoL)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>...with a greater power, comes...</b></div><div>It just, when you heard that with a greater power comes a greater responsibility things, you might say, "yeah, I am not a superhero". But if you are a superhero, what kind of superhero are you? </div><div><br /></div><div>Some say our favorit superhero is actually reflect what can we do or what we wanna be. An engineer may choose Iron Man, an wealthy young man may choose Batman, an ordinary and a bit nerd man may choose Spider Man. Scientist may opt for X-Men or Fantastic Four. </div><div><br /></div><div>But we don't have to be a superhero to do something. We are, a super species. Each of us, have the power to change, to contribute, to inspire, to move, to put a butterfly in the universe. And whether the butterfly swings will become tornado later, let destiny decide, you can only try.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>...so let us put more butterflies...</b></div><div>I want to see this blog again putting so much butterfly in the universe. Ideas, inspiration, provocation, or just a fun reading, or even just a comment,"what the hell are this person talking about". Already passed 30000 visitors, if only 1% of them found a good things here, already that makes me happy.</div><div><br /></div><div>So at least, while my mood are being good lately, I want to shift from dark to light. Started from this page, started from this blog. I want to learn to become a real Professional, like those I met these days in the real life. But, I want to do it if possible with a cool way, not the boring one :-)</div><div><br /></div><div>Hope you like he new look. So if people type my name in the google, and this page is on top (yes, it is, try it), they don't get disappointed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Cheers </div></div>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-63669000363399218472011-01-03T07:25:00.011+07:002011-05-14T12:49:19.880+07:00New Year 2011 | What's your mirror<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZkZysVaZLHlsvsFf2EuFuhR4WBJJbjhQq8S-ilLNxeN622tx5-i3Vs1RLbRCtIGlBwuc1EDpWq3RjDAeXkuFDZ_zi_1UHTAaPMUNBxiNamYuKIzcrprLfWwjF5oOnvP2lyG1eZw/s1600/GlassSmall.JPG"><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; display: block; height: 306px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557767817958284706" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZkZysVaZLHlsvsFf2EuFuhR4WBJJbjhQq8S-ilLNxeN622tx5-i3Vs1RLbRCtIGlBwuc1EDpWq3RjDAeXkuFDZ_zi_1UHTAaPMUNBxiNamYuKIzcrprLfWwjF5oOnvP2lyG1eZw/s400/GlassSmall.JPG" border="0" /></a> <div style="font-weight: bold;"></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">Happy New Year Guys...!!</span><br />The common New Year notes is usually initiated by sentence like "when the last fireworks faded and cast darkness to the brewering midnight in the of birth of 2011.." or so. Well... may be I should not start any new opening, this is already cool enough. Let's just use that.</div><div></div><br /><div>It is 2011! It is the year when 6 same digit in the ddmmyy calendar form will only happen once in thousand years (11 November 2011, dummy!). What's your point of view of 2011?</div><br /><div></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">....1 year remaining before the Doom??</span><br />Well, it's the year the NASA said our Sun will lost control of his behaviour. It's the worst solar storm within thousands years caused by extreme flare in the Corona Mass Ejection. The activity of its <a href="http://nasional.kompas.com/read/2008/11/26/13072198/isu.kiamat.tahun.2012.yang.meresahkan">Solar storm</a> may distract the communication wave and satellite accross the globe. It is also <a href="http://imamnic.blogspot.com/2008/10/at-world-end-exploring-2012-mystery.html">1 years count down to 2012</a> ;-)</div><br />It's also said as the escalating year of worst climate (well, our climate already worst). We see in 2010, the worst winter in northern europe and US. The snow storm and blizzard paralyzed a lot of cities there and the winter bite is freezing the human life. Also these last several years the worst summer ever. Climate change is "word of the year" for scientist and all the human who conscious.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">...while Indonesia is boosting its growth!</span><br /><div></div><div>In the other hand, Indonesia is developing into a new global economic icon. Indonesia is said as the new I in <a href="http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC">BRIC</a>I (Brazil Russia India China Indonesia), the icon of nations with most outstanding economic growth and projection despite the crisis in US and Europe. </div><br /><div></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">...and fighting corruptions..</span><br />Despite the legendary battle between Cicak and Buaya, and world class mafia hitman Gayus Tambunan we also do hope Indonesia will find a way to solve the deep rooting corruption. As long as people of Indonesia open their eyes and shout out loud, we together can beat the devil inside. No matter what color they are, RED GREEN BLUE or YELLOW.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">...and rejuvenate the nationalism...go Irfan Bachdim !!</span><br /></div><div> </div><div>Indonesian nationalisme have been also showing its distinct red color, in the epic of the national soccer team campaigne in AFF 2010 that withdrawed peoples supports national wide regardless race, religion, and ethnics. No comment for Nurdin Halid. Timnas is to die for. Right now I believe our neighbours will temporarily fear to mess with our teritory, at least until this 2011, if they don't want their country swarmed by red shirted citizen legion!</div><br /><div></div><div>BP twitted : <em>"Today we won, but we failed to be a champion. But more of it, we do hope we won the heart of Indonesian people".</em> You guys did, awesome!</div><br /><div></div><div style="font-weight: bold;">Others,..hmmm...</div><br /><div>Politics, well its not my major. Laws and human rights, also not my major. Technology, hope they launch Ipod like Blackberry. Movies, can't wait to see Nicholas Flamel in the big screen and Harry Potter 7.2! (haha). Musics, hope Muse or Dream Theater rock Jakarta this year - and yeah also hope Ariel will be released soon. I want to hear their new album! Works, doh...I just want to get these things done!</div><br /><div></div><div>At most, this year may be a bit frantic, yet enjoyable. It's up to you how to see it. But it just like Electra King said : </div><br /><div></div><div><em>"What's the point of living, if you don't feel alive..?"</em></div>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-68237519968553072202010-10-09T22:35:00.009+07:002011-06-03T18:29:49.900+07:00The Speed of Trust<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfTUuWqhMune5Ofo14ULoQheuI1_4pthsLu7M1-WyHzZScsCb8Bb2mUKVjkvRsP4TQs2wR-slnyRhL8JLaCOJACElYgMIRNeDpfen-Z507G9EeSLTTgAebiGrm_OxsC3Rh7TfOQ/s1600/Rooftop_landscape_street_01_small.JPG"><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526083782640830114" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfTUuWqhMune5Ofo14ULoQheuI1_4pthsLu7M1-WyHzZScsCb8Bb2mUKVjkvRsP4TQs2wR-slnyRhL8JLaCOJACElYgMIRNeDpfen-Z507G9EeSLTTgAebiGrm_OxsC3Rh7TfOQ/s400/Rooftop_landscape_street_01_small.JPG" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you trust me...??</span><br />Trust is intangible virtue. You may sense it, but it's all based on self perspectives that grows within experiences. You may right about measuring that sometime, but don't be fooled, a risk of false judgement might lurking in the shadow.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Really...?</span><br />How would you measure how big the people trust in you. How would you detect that they really give you a trust, not just being polite or doing their interpersonal skills. An eye is a gate for everything, but still an eye have multiple layers. Within every layer a diversion might happen.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Well, what they said about trust...</span><br />I just like how Stephen Covey (Jr) wrap this virtue into his book : Leading at the Speed of Trust. I like it more when one of the best trainer in Indonesia cooked it and presented the book on the table as an inspiring Training experience.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">...is probably worth to read...by you..</span><br />I really wish a particular man read that. Because sometime I think that a certain situation could only be solved optimally if only they would admit to let it done to one speed : my speed ;-). But that man just can't stop measure everything shall be legally risk free :p<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">...the simple model, yet concise...</span><br />I like the simple model of how a trust can be gained, on that book :<br />- The root, as in two simple word : Integrity and Intent<br />- The tree, as in Capability and Result<br /><br />Integrity and Intent - an entity of Self Trust. That a man shall be synchronized between his mind, his word, and his act. Whew.<br /><br />Capability and Result - an entity that how a potential could be executed into a bottom line result. The part when the actual reputation is built.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">...sounds easy, but...</span><br />The second one is manageable. But the first. Hmm..where should my darkside plays. Nicholas will be bored as dead.<br /><br />But in the end of the day, this speed of trust is the speed that we need. Somehow the training revive the ninetailed firefox within (watch Naruto please). Trust will accelerate everything, trust will break the defense mechanism, trust will enable you to maximize your capability and delivering result without any false prejudice of motivation.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Trust will break the multiple layer within peoples eye. Like a laser through a melted poly urethane.</span><br /><br />Trust, is the speed I might need if I want to be a part of enlightment movement for this nation. Well, is "coming early in the morning" included in Integrity clauses? Ouch..<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Let me try it, be patient. I really trying to do :p</span>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-4339999691377217942010-06-15T12:51:00.005+07:002011-05-14T15:19:53.242+07:00Characters - Digitalized<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24BMrXNeqLH8X9I2xoH2XRXaoLE8H_GQXL-yre8oWyX9HJGDlsOzVOpde8ILqs1obYuTb5aMnWNjemndXzNv3XjzYnfSQ1glFdDamxqVZhBWUdU_ejfdojfilgTyCFmSwQZ4m7A/s1600/sky_candle_cigar.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24BMrXNeqLH8X9I2xoH2XRXaoLE8H_GQXL-yre8oWyX9HJGDlsOzVOpde8ILqs1obYuTb5aMnWNjemndXzNv3XjzYnfSQ1glFdDamxqVZhBWUdU_ejfdojfilgTyCFmSwQZ4m7A/s400/sky_candle_cigar.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482874245300149202" /></a><b>Dude, I know what you did last summer...</b><br /><div>In the world of rapid information exchange, a personal interest have become public interest. You may just post one whining on Facebook and suddenly they world knows you are in suffer. Some people take a good caution on their character, but you cannot mask what you really are.<div><br /></div><div>People now realize they have to pay more attention of what they do, what they share. If any part of their life is digitalized, then just waiting the time that digital form somehow connected to an internet cable, or wireless fidelity or thousands of radio wave that now storming the earth with massive networks. And somehow they become public.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>...you and the darkside, right...??</b></div><div>If you have darkside, better tell him to deal with only real life. Darkside never learn internet, they never learn information technology, dark side have no virtue against expert of telematics. If you could kill him, let him assured that's the best for you both. If not, tell your darkside stay away from any digitalizer monster.</div><div><br /></div><div>Darkside is ancient threat. He never learn new technology.</div><div>So when your darkside in control...stay away from image or motion capturer.</div><div>Or he too..will become your digital character.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Careful dear Ariel ;-)</b></div></div>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-31523957813490756222010-04-18T13:55:00.010+07:002011-05-15T00:37:36.745+07:00Customer Loyalty (feedback to IM2)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsN2Os7IB3Cz7rin-i8kRK31V3mclIEoaHHX6le_RHXqhjvKXAIJtiwZTlvTMAgPMmiMVMXbydDlACTYR-kAx-zL8thwGZxB6BIZ2dvhI1vXF5ULfXYqDoHHtJeUZfvqTKz9sqLw/s1600/crowded_fish.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsN2Os7IB3Cz7rin-i8kRK31V3mclIEoaHHX6le_RHXqhjvKXAIJtiwZTlvTMAgPMmiMVMXbydDlACTYR-kAx-zL8thwGZxB6BIZ2dvhI1vXF5ULfXYqDoHHtJeUZfvqTKz9sqLw/s400/crowded_fish.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461381118153846834" /></a><br /><div><b>Now, learn this...</b></div>Customer loyalty is a special attachment from customer to a product or service to consistently use or buy certain product/service because of trust, satisfaction, delighted in the previous consumption process.<br /><br />Some company yield most of their income for this special preferences attachment. We can say a product like customer goods, banking, insurances, car maintenance, and telecomunication mostly have more than 50% of their income through this loyal customers.<br /><br /><b>...so you should have done this...</b><br /><div>For a well managed company with high awareness of how important customer loyalty is, their main strategy is to maintain this segment while doing expansion to get a new customer that aimed to be converted to a loyal one. Doing so will preserve their current market share and also increasing their market share in the sustainable way.<br /><br /><b>...but...</b></div><div>But for some company, they are so eager in expansion. To get more new customer as much as possible, without seeing the capability to maintained their old, loyal, and premium customer. Certain company do a massive marketing on getting new customer, offering the product/service without realizing this might reduce the quality of service received by their current customer.<br /><br /><b>...ok, you wanna now what I am talking about...?</b></div><div>I will point directly to telecommunication and broadband provider to be more precise. Their quantity of customer will correlate directly with quality received by each customer to certain quantity. This is because bandwidth is like a bus with certain passenger. When a premium bus carry passenger in numbers of their available seat, then all pasengger will be comfort sitting there, air condition work well, and the bus could go with optimum speed. They will use the same bus everyday.<br /><br />But imagine if the driver knows they have only 30 seat, but still want to add up to 50 passenger. The bus will full, and all the passenger will feel uncomfort and probably decide another bus for another day. They had paid premium price but still get lousy service.<br /><br /><b>yeah...speaking of the devil...</b></div><div>I think you know what kind of service I am talking about. A lot of website or blog complaining about their service if you search their name in Google. Yes, I am using IM2. Massively marketed as broadband with 3,6 Mbps using UMTS/HSDPA technology. Ownly claimed as the best internet service provider in Indonesia. But what I have in the last two month is sometime only GPRS, or HSDPA with on/off connection with off rate nearly every minutes. Or only HSDPA in midnight when limited user is using the bandwidth. <div><br /></div><div>IM2 should have said :<div>"Broadband up to 3,6 Mbps - when you are lucky"</div><div>"Broadband up to 3,6 Mbps - when everyone else is sleeping"</div><div>"Broadband up to 3,6 Mbps - special location only"<br /><br />The problem is when doing purchase, it was said it is broadband, fast, and wide area of coverage. When I showed my location in Jatibening, they provide a satellite map that my location was fully provided with HSDPA. Seeing the bandwidth limitation I only took package with up to 384 Kbps unlimited, because that speed is actually enough. But like the bus in Tanah Abang, 30 satisfied passenger probably not enough. They keep adding customer without seeing that their capacity of service is already run out. Right now, in the last three month their service is very lousy.<br /><br /><b>..uhmm, whay don't you call them...?</b></div><div>Yes there is customer service to call, but what can they do? It's the "bus driver" who order to collect more passenger. I think their employee uses Kopaja or Metromini too much so they think "hey, if Kopaja and Metromini could be loaded with a lot of passenger why our company not finding customer as much as possible?". <div><br /><div>But then again, I don't think so. They yield a lot of profit this year. Their employee should have high salary and bonus. Probably their employee never use Kopaja so they don't know how uncomfortable a bus with overloaded passenger. They take their profit too much, while it should be given back to paying customer as a good service.<br /><br /><b>See..shame on them...</b></div><div>It's a shame a big company like them does not understand about maintaining loyal customer is more important then getting a new one. I know a lot of you will advise to change provider, and a lot of people already did. But doing so will not give lesson to them because they probably think they will get a lot of new customer anyway, those will be substitute those who left. Just wait until all candidates of new customer hear about bad image of IM2 service.<br /><br /><b>I am not ruining, I am helping you...</b></div><div>So Voila, here is my feedback for all broadband providers. To all of you who use IM2 feel free to comment, probably they will here us, probably not. Just like Kopaja or Metromini, you can't do anything for that. Take it, or leave it.<br /><br />To other company who provide services, just remember this thing :<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">A customer loyalty shall be maintained, they are not just there for granted</span><br /><br />P.S : if you have facebook, search for petition to broadband provider to provide real broadband as advertised. Soon will be launched :-)<br /></div></div></div></div></div>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-83343006334621112452009-12-28T14:40:00.007+07:002009-12-28T15:09:35.854+07:00Stranded in Unconcious Island<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVRZdMh2Z20MgrZD8nVfzTt0JqVdFfDzCksijsSvoi5eBaFuDUyu1UnXIAtavHf0Uz-QhCImnW58IrgKyycjFrGJK62uFkhP8uKbki6yAaGNSGaJL7SNWIukydEWsy20NU6-Vdg/s1600-h/SingleBoat_TanjungTinggi_0609.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVRZdMh2Z20MgrZD8nVfzTt0JqVdFfDzCksijsSvoi5eBaFuDUyu1UnXIAtavHf0Uz-QhCImnW58IrgKyycjFrGJK62uFkhP8uKbki6yAaGNSGaJL7SNWIukydEWsy20NU6-Vdg/s400/SingleBoat_TanjungTinggi_0609.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420190396625656578" /></a>Sometime we are just like a dust sticked in the clock dial. Enjoying the ride without any will to move or leaving, ticking and ticking with no denial. Sometime our brain works like a mechanic. In the morning take an early shower to be faster than trafic stream, open facebook and the time consuming addicting life threatening games within, checking task, and operates according to due dates.<div><br /></div><div>Who said we are concious doing daily life? A spiritual professor once said once "you are living unconcious during the day, during your activity, during your all decision making and brain working. The only one when you are concious, is when you silently understand and when you silently pray. There, when you know you are not more than one atom in the vast universe, you are concious of what you are".</div><div><br /></div><div>Yet, may be life is simple for a normal. You work, you sell, you entertain, you socialize, you success, you are popular, you are getting old, you have children, and then you die. Are we doing that conciously? Proud to our brain, our title, our competences, our interpersonal skill? Yet, are we consious? </div><div><br /></div><div>Then what are you doing now, in this minutes, in this ticking second staring to a worthless read? I have unloaded gun in my hand, so stay away from my running lane.. </div>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-40227733905338765412009-12-01T21:55:00.003+07:002009-12-01T22:31:29.283+07:002012 | Apel di atas kepala fotografer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO2A8JqXMla_kiX5y2r3LzJxizhXopId1rd4eIik9oot0Jmbv8smk-s6KwaEo5pxF2B1LtNxwcaGhQoTRHVTIQetjc6VV-4hn3wknW9pTt_DZuykghzf24LflWGTX1tMXQZ6cicQ/s1600/Thailand_sky.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO2A8JqXMla_kiX5y2r3LzJxizhXopId1rd4eIik9oot0Jmbv8smk-s6KwaEo5pxF2B1LtNxwcaGhQoTRHVTIQetjc6VV-4hn3wknW9pTt_DZuykghzf24LflWGTX1tMXQZ6cicQ/s400/Thailand_sky.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410290628286756514" /></a><div>Bayangkan sebuah apel yang dijatuhkan 3000 m di atas permukaan bumi dari sebuah helicopter yang sedang melayang di tempat. Apel itu tepat vertikal di atas kepala seorang fotografer yang sedang mengambil gambar model berpakaian minim untuk sebuah film 17 tahun.</div><div><b>Pertanyaannya</b>?</div><div><i>Apakah apel akan mengenai kepala sang fotografer dan membubarkan pesta bikini?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Nah, apa hubungannya dengan judul post kali ini?</div><div>Hollywood baru saja merelease 2012 versi komersial. Film total destruction yang mengambil keuntungan dari rumor semi ilmiah semi klenik mengenai tahun 2012. Tahun yang oleh banyak ilmuwan diprediksi memiliki anomali dan oleh peramal dijadikan komoditi baru untuk pertanyaan seputar kiamat. Mungkin sedikit coba dipisahkan mana yang fiksi dan mana yang science. </div><div><br /></div><div>Sepengetahuan saya, ini fakta ilmiah yang telah diprediksi oleh ilmu pengetahuan :</div><div>1. Galactic Alignment, mengenai matahari akan satu poros dengan pusat Galaxi</div><div>2. Solar Storm, ledakan korona matahari yang mencapai puncak di 2011 dan 2012</div><div>3. Global Warming, kenaikan temperatur yang melelehkan es di kutub </div><div>4. Supervulcano, Yellow Stone sebagai cadangan magma terbesar di dunia saat ini</div><div>5. Magnetic Shift, kemungkinan perputaran kutub magnet yang terjadi beberapa ribu tahun.</div><div>Selengkapnya klik Mozaic at World New Day 2012 yang tahun lalu saya iseng tulis (dan akhirnya sedikit dikomentari secara kontroversial) sebagai artikel investigasi sebelum ada ribut-ribut mengenai film yang menyebabkan tempat ibadah saat ini ramai kembali dikunjungi para umat ^_^.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nah apa hubungannya dengan buah apel di paragraf awal?</div><div>Seandainya dunia hanya terbangun atas sistem yang bisa diprediksi maka ilmu pengetahuan memastikan buah apel akan jatuh mengikuti gravitasi di kepala sang Fotografer dengan kecepatan lebih dari 100 m/s atau 360 km/jam dan membuyarkan isi kepala dari fotografer tersebut. Dan itu berarti tahun 2012 akan dipenuhi dengan orang-orang yang membuat perahu besar untuk menyelamatkan diri.</div><div><br /></div><div>Namun hidup adalah gabungan antara system dan attractor yang ada di dalamnya, sebuah system yang terdiri atas kombinasi antara keteraturan dan chaos yang teratur. Sedikit saja buah apel itu melewati udara bertekanan maka arah jatuh dari apel akan berubah. Dan lebih dari 6 milyar manusia yang hidup di dunia ini apabila lebih peduli pada bumi (dan lebih banyak berdoa), maka prediksi linier ilmu pengetahuan untuk 2012 mungkin berubah arah.</div><div>Seperti halnya buah apple.</div><div><br /></div><div>Dan seperti semua yang berjalan saat ini, bahkan sang waktu, tetap saja tunduk pada sang Empunya. Tidak ada yang terjadi di luar kehendak-Nya.</div><div><br /></div><div>Maka menurut saya, ingat saja buah apel dan bubarnya pesta bikini seandainya anda takut setelah nonton film 2012.</div><div><br /></div><div>Salam</div><div><br /></div>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-31249602734588315762009-11-05T22:34:00.005+07:002011-05-15T00:36:05.486+07:00Slow dancing in the spotless mind<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb99qqoL6bDTiIVdyG4hwfYgBYLnKMKMU-fRR_6hGAb_7P4H4AljYyXJWcXnv841jvC0yMI5qOb2XGUSmZlv77IdGdfB0eggn4euvpCUmVAYogf4jrbSOUAICzAYfwhk6ci0mGvg/s1600-h/smalldockbright.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb99qqoL6bDTiIVdyG4hwfYgBYLnKMKMU-fRR_6hGAb_7P4H4AljYyXJWcXnv841jvC0yMI5qOb2XGUSmZlv77IdGdfB0eggn4euvpCUmVAYogf4jrbSOUAICzAYfwhk6ci0mGvg/s400/smalldockbright.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400648779731257778" border="0" /></a>Too much time is lost without thinking. Like a tiny gear in the mechanical clock, time is moving without it's own willing. A shock may disrupt a line in the future, a little attractor may switch the output of a system assumed to be mature . Even a laws of attraction cannot deny a distraction. Life is moving again in a time flock, bit by bit, ticking at the same numbers of second like a -run out of battery- clock.<br /><br />When there's such a present stays forever like a brewed wine<br />Yes dear, we slow dancing in the spotless mind....Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-66810651957086883252009-09-01T07:38:00.004+07:002009-09-01T07:52:46.089+07:00Faceless Void<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCnm4xQgFVjeCEEKrm49bANgD7owL-XKrngLoKbHOqtOxOw12Jgi0nTwhzAnA3BfE0vvKkCip9YSy7L5cirpx41KPFxRbCpnpuzLPusWGlHKWAZF_1uO2Dh7dOMjGmp1210FgD0g/s1600-h/Prambanan_290309_01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCnm4xQgFVjeCEEKrm49bANgD7owL-XKrngLoKbHOqtOxOw12Jgi0nTwhzAnA3BfE0vvKkCip9YSy7L5cirpx41KPFxRbCpnpuzLPusWGlHKWAZF_1uO2Dh7dOMjGmp1210FgD0g/s400/Prambanan_290309_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376292494960974770" border="0" /></a>You might heard a silence for a while, whilst it's like a bumble bee out of exhile. To conclude is a swift prejudice, to understood is a different . You might just see someone's status on the facebook and say "ah, it's a pity life he has there", while what smile lies beneath is the owners victory of deceiving.<br /><br />Well, in this indefinite faceless void you might guess for what havoc might have been trembling. But, hey - try to be more optimistic. Life in here is in realm of electrifying.Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-84690743793411748802009-06-27T21:28:00.003+07:002009-06-27T21:46:40.034+07:00Sail away , pull your anchor<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrGn-yJJIvYwda_JWT-bS8KR3Owrp7BscO698ScCIQg41rrLc0Sw2yJrPF-bVf8coFxSBp_Y5NUTc56kr0yxPsYLbBzcvoh39qufqgsJOg4yWsjc-MNAYkoZO5g22vfkAoXepLg/s1600-h/TanjungTinggi_Belitung.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrGn-yJJIvYwda_JWT-bS8KR3Owrp7BscO698ScCIQg41rrLc0Sw2yJrPF-bVf8coFxSBp_Y5NUTc56kr0yxPsYLbBzcvoh39qufqgsJOg4yWsjc-MNAYkoZO5g22vfkAoXepLg/s400/TanjungTinggi_Belitung.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352018753507109538" border="0" /></a>We knew our boat is not enough to carry us all. So I told us we should have our own to sail before night fall. I have my destination, for now I already have pull off my anchoration. And I see wind flows before my screen, soon I will leave you without a sin. Because I knew you will find your own seashore, because I left you standing on the your own deck and smiling a gore.<br /><br />I would not dare to say I will arrive sooner than you, never even dare to say I would find a city of my dream, rather than you. The time when we all said "Does it really matters now" is over, and now we are all bravely sail into our new harbour. You are now captain of your life, brother..Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-83081561739192200962009-06-14T18:48:00.006+07:002009-06-14T21:14:31.222+07:00As long as you walk long enough<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-GG-rsKDjVFJd62FIlltzuE-1t3bxb3ZmfAf5r-JdN2rHW8KR13-DA-7gjGXrCt6Curj413LlPjbMu2nPAeWi0hcyQ385je_mLE3ZTak7IlktYs8KZdJE8L3rv-UWC73EWwCtFQ/s1600-h/TanjungKelayang_Belitung_imamwahyudi.com.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-GG-rsKDjVFJd62FIlltzuE-1t3bxb3ZmfAf5r-JdN2rHW8KR13-DA-7gjGXrCt6Curj413LlPjbMu2nPAeWi0hcyQ385je_mLE3ZTak7IlktYs8KZdJE8L3rv-UWC73EWwCtFQ/s400/TanjungKelayang_Belitung_imamwahyudi.com.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347183054138960210" border="0" /></a>I see you found your own offshore. Like Alice in the Wonderland, or even in any Island, any direction will take you there, as long as you walk long enough. There is no Island without border, there is no continent without seashore, even if you live in the middle of Australia and you walk to the West or East, or North or South; if you walk straight long enough you will find your sea.<br /><br />It may take days or months, but I promised you that you will find it. Have I told you that dear, too many times?Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-36720710078535087562009-06-14T18:39:00.005+07:002009-06-14T20:52:23.097+07:00Bloom, spread out the seed<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSmHel_JkLIGZy37Lt2cLfZv092sQ6vplbrzjo74_lUfiXNEJ3pxgL0Qw51yHjSxy2IPHmJT-40wMR82_BeqoXMsGFOlxS3pCKtMe9LSuocd4FrL_xNzoye-8C1ANMGXm_RHDpjg/s1600-h/orchid_flower_imamwahyudi.com.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSmHel_JkLIGZy37Lt2cLfZv092sQ6vplbrzjo74_lUfiXNEJ3pxgL0Qw51yHjSxy2IPHmJT-40wMR82_BeqoXMsGFOlxS3pCKtMe9LSuocd4FrL_xNzoye-8C1ANMGXm_RHDpjg/s400/orchid_flower_imamwahyudi.com.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347179021548114626" border="0" /></a>Everything flows like how it should be. And apple cannot deny gravity, hold on only wait for its maturity. A birth as a tiny flower, growing with nutrient and bloom. It finally falls as it grows older, sicken the stem even it knows an apple is only spreading the seed.<br /><br />As we all know, Universe bind to the Laws of attraction, and definitely reflect the rules of action-reaction. Does it really matters then?Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-51659616998259766722009-05-31T21:58:00.010+07:002012-10-14T22:22:54.838+07:00Abundant Mentality | How abundant can you go?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLZnOi5TCiWjdyidRqF7eMJFs6l-MaHyiZof2wcyQ3spGK3KSOUsjNfjfMuUSmDsE5iuSX0txTqJiJwWWa3d9dSZx_1B7aUndWiN8PBggW5fcryJOzOe6BkqjvKlRlh_nSp4EXQ/s1600-h/abundant.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLZnOi5TCiWjdyidRqF7eMJFs6l-MaHyiZof2wcyQ3spGK3KSOUsjNfjfMuUSmDsE5iuSX0txTqJiJwWWa3d9dSZx_1B7aUndWiN8PBggW5fcryJOzOe6BkqjvKlRlh_nSp4EXQ/s400/abundant.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342007688072111090" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">A lot of fortune and good thing would come, if only we don't mind who will take advantages of our excellence works. Abundant mentality therefore, will give back in the most disguised way (postulat#11, imamwahyudi.com)</span><br /><br />Hihihi, seandainya saja yang membuat quote ini seseorang yang terkenal pasti quote ini akan sering digunakan dalam buku-buku motivasi, atau di kelas-kelas training, atau disampaikan dengan berapi-api di acara televisi dengan pembicara yang yang meyakinkan dan membuat anda tercengang dengan buaian kata-kata indah. Sayangnya bukan, yang nulis cuma seorang karyawan yang setiap pagi harus scan in kehadiran sebelum jam 8 kalo gak mau absennya jadi pemegang rekor di akhir bulan ;-p<br /><br />Abundant mentality, mentalitas kelimpah ruahan. Jebolan Astra Management Program pasti masih ingat dengan paradigma ini, atau paradoks mungkin? Kami dilatih untuk selalu memiliki mental melimpah ruah, bahwa untuk win-win itu tidak boleh ada yang lose, bahwa mengalah satu langkah kadang dapat memenangkan semua orang, bahwa bekerjalah seperti anda tidak membutuhkan uang (dan paradoksnya untuk orang yang tidak punya mental ini : kalo dah punya uang ngapain kerja? Xixixix)<br /><br />Abundant Mentality memiliki prinsip bahwa hidup ini menyediakan resource yang sangat banyak yang tidak perlu diperebutkan, bahwa kompetisi tidak diperlukan jika saja semua orang percaya bahwa masing-masing mempunyai kesempatan untuk sama-sama menang. Bahwa dengan memberi, semua akan menerima dan mungkin sesuatu yang lebih akan disediakan oleh alam semesta (the Divine One).<br /><br />Dan logika ini sangat sulit diterima oleh beberapa orang yang secara budaya dilahirkan untuk memenangkan persaingan. Bahwa jika kamu tidak menang maka kamu kalah. <span style="font-style: italic;">"Cem mana bisa semuanya menang, catur aja harus ada yang kalah bang?!? Kalo remis, main lagilah kita</span>". Nah lo, matilah tuh Trainernya menghadapi orang macam gini.<br /><br />Seandainya saja semua orang percaya pada Laws of attraction, percaya pada Emotional Bank Account, percaya pada "There's a good thing in everyone", apalagi pada Qada dan Qadar (nah yang ini panjang nih). Hanya dengan inilah, prinsip Abundant Mentality ini bisa terjadi. Dan jika anda bingung dengan istilah Inggris ini atau terjemahannya yang juga sulit, mungkin anda lebih familiar dengan kata : Ikhlas. Konsepnya luar biasa, tapi menjalaninya luar binasa.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there </span><span style="font-style: italic;">~Indira Gandhi</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />Hihihi, kalo quote yang ini orangnya terkenal sih :-p</span>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-34406174836696308022009-05-31T21:58:00.009+07:002009-05-31T22:32:07.151+07:00Empty Seat | Please mind waiting<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqmgnl0hGhd6MDNdF-JxTwadm8b326AhyphenhyphenmQd98UItXbJS6WN8v-H8g_tXWHsCrxgRqhyO6nzEQLYA2STrXfOKj1_nyyJKv9b9xlZFjkVCeG7ItBKd4zrNT2QdNQGhEjXb4-FxXKA/s1600-h/empty.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqmgnl0hGhd6MDNdF-JxTwadm8b326AhyphenhyphenmQd98UItXbJS6WN8v-H8g_tXWHsCrxgRqhyO6nzEQLYA2STrXfOKj1_nyyJKv9b9xlZFjkVCeG7ItBKd4zrNT2QdNQGhEjXb4-FxXKA/s400/empty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342010976077024066" border="0" /></a>A man walk in to a restaurant and he just see all the seat was empty. As a normal he just take a seat and start to read the menu. A sudden he realized that his seat was reserved, and he move to look around to see all table was named the same. He walks around to find one, but nothing is open as he see all reserved. But he just can't find any sign of table manner, not a tick of spoon, not a slick of slurps. So he just stand there, waiting.Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-90399933132486841382009-05-31T21:24:00.004+07:002012-10-14T22:22:54.845+07:00Abundant Mentality | How abundant are you?<font style="font-style: italic;">A lot of fortune and good thing would come, if only we don't mind who will take advantages of our excellence works. Abundant mentality therefore, will give back in the most disguised way (postulat#11, imamwahyudi.com)</font><br /><br />Hihihi, seandainya saja yang membuat quote ini seseorang yang terkenal pasti quote ini akan sering digunakan dalam buku-buku motivasi, atau di kelas-kelas training, atau disampaikan dengan berapi-api di acara televisi dengan pembicara yang yang meyakinkan dan membuat anda tercengang dengan buaian kata-kata indah. Sayangnya bukan, yang nulis cuma seorang karyawan yang setiap pagi harus scan in kehadiran sebelum jam 8 kalo gak mau absennya jadi pemegang rekor di akhir bulan ;-p<br /><br />Abundant mentality, mentalitas kelimpah ruahan. Jebolan Astra Management Program pasti masih ingat dengan paradigma ini, atau paradoks mungkin? Kami dilatih untuk selalu memiliki mental melimpah ruah, bahwa untuk win-win itu tidak boleh ada yang lose, bahwa mengalah satu langkah kadang dapat memenangkan semua orang, bahwa bekerjalah seperti anda tidak membutuhkan uang (dan paradoksnya untuk orang yang tidak punya mental ini : kalo dah punya uang ngapain kerja? Xixixix)<br /><br />Abundant Mentality memiliki prinsip bahwa hidup ini menyediakan resource yang sangat banyak yang tidak perlu diperebutkan, bahwa kompetisi tidak diperlukan jika saja semua orang percaya bahwa masing-masing mempunyai kesempatan untuk sama-sama menang. Bahwa dengan memberi, semua akan menerima dan mungkin sesuatu yang lebih akan disediakan oleh alam semesta (the Divine One).<br /><br />Dan logika ini sangat sulit diterima oleh beberapa orang yang secara budaya dilahirkan untuk memenangkan persaingan. Bahwa jika kamu tidak menang maka kamu kalah. Cem mana bisa semuanya menang, catur aja harus ada yang kalah bang?!? Kalo remis, main lagilah kita. Nah lo, matilah tuh Trainernya menghadapi orang macam gini.<br /><br />Seandainya semua orang percaya pada Laws of attraction, percaya pada Emotional Bank Account, percaya pada "There's a good thing in everyone", apalagi pada Qada dan Qadar (nah yang ini panjang nih). Hanya dengan inilah, prinsip Abundant Mentality ini bisa terjadi. Dan jika anda bingung dengan istilah Inggris ini atau terjemahannya yang juga sulit, mungkin anda lebih familiar dengan kata : Ikhlas. Konsepnya luar biasa, tapi menjalaninya luar binasa.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. <br />~Indira Gandhi</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hihihi, kalo quote yang ini terkenal </span>:-p<br />Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097406.post-26578763328468901792009-05-24T22:38:00.008+07:002009-05-24T23:09:24.364+07:00God allows U Turn, let's hope<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzbRE5gDYgvHqhOE5ypakYDdSLW6CYwRf_l8On-VGE6f9IWXakkw3JMM8I98WnQHm3_diH98idmuwfQG1AycRGBmrSuXahWxS0RaCIZnzERz8Jue4Tlbdepw0WAhteEPtQWdI6w/s1600-h/crossroad.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzbRE5gDYgvHqhOE5ypakYDdSLW6CYwRf_l8On-VGE6f9IWXakkw3JMM8I98WnQHm3_diH98idmuwfQG1AycRGBmrSuXahWxS0RaCIZnzERz8Jue4Tlbdepw0WAhteEPtQWdI6w/s400/crossroad.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339422785637903682" border="0" /></a>So many times in life we meet another cross roads. While probability always cover what lies in our destiny, we usually use so many resource of thinking to make sure that we will take the right path. So many times we face a hard decision, especially when the risk of wrong path would be unbearable. And so many times we finally hesitate to change, rather than using our judgement we prefer to just go straight.<br /><br />We hesitate to take a turn, we hesitate to take alternative, we hesitate to decide. Rather than facing regret, we love the status quo by just go straight and keep our driving wheel unchanged. And then we could blame destiny if straight way is finally a dead end, and say it's a good decision if it is finally a field of glory.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />For me, I will just take where my heart say. Left or right, anywhere my heart desire.<br />Shall we just believe that God also allows a "U Turn"? Like it or not, we will meet another cross road anyway.</span>Imam Wahyudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416913869279792871noreply@blogger.com5