Monday, November 23, 2009

FIGURE-FIGURE CREATIVITY WORLD

"Creativity is the hallmark of world figures who have actualized themselves" said Abraham Maslow. Creative nature almost has the same meaning as health, self actualization and full humanness. Sifang properties associated with this creativity is flexibility, spontaneity, courage, daring to make mistakes, openness and humility. Creativity figures of this world in many ways similar to the creativity of children before they know the fear of ridicule other people, they still see the problem afresh without prejudice. According to Maslow these properties merupakat properties which often disappear after a person becomes an adult. People who did not lose self a fresh approach and this naive, or if you have to lose, they'll get it back in the future. Almost every child is able to create songs, poems, paintings, dances, stories or games of a sudden, without any planned or anticipated by the previous intentions. George Land reported in the Break-Point and Beyond, that creativity is 5-year-olds scored 98%, 10-year-olds scored 32%, 15-year-olds scored 10%, and adults 42 years of age scored only 2% .

Spontaneity is also almost has the same meaning with creativity. The people who actualize themselves more, do not be shy therefore, more expressive, natural and innocent. Usually they do not need to hide his feelings or their thoughts or behavior artificial. Kebranian requires creativity, ability to survive, be able to ignore the criticism and ridicule, and able to resist the influence of culture itself. Each character has provided evidence of the elements required courage in moments of quiet creation, as confirmed something new. This sort of recklessness, a leap forward alone, an uprising or a challenge. These figures also experience fear, but fear can be overcome in order to open possibilities towards creation. Humble Skalipun of new ideas and quick to admit ignorance or error, but still has a firm stance and are willing to sacrifice popularity to defend a new idea. They are full of confidence and self-esteem, so it can better focus on the task to be completed rather than maintain their own egos.

They are not afraid to make mistakes, including stupid mistakes. They think "like crazy" as a creative person. They are flexible, can adapt when the situation changes, be able to stop habits that are not good, able to face indecision and changes in conditions without unnecessary tension and does not feel threatened by anything and anyone. They are hardworking, have a lot of inspiration and produce real work worldwide. They always work hard, discipline and training. Being the children who is without sin, seeing the world with wide eyes, not knowing the fear of ridicule, failure errors which are guided by spiritual intelligence will make you a very creative person at the highest level.

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LEADER AGUNG

A month or 30 days also means 30% of people have been able to forget the trauma. We will reach 90% over the trauma after 90 days, so the theory known as the 90/90. God gives to man's ability to be able to forget the trauma automatically. Difficult times like this needs a leader who can be role models. Leaders at a time like this demands not only talk but act and went into the field and close to the people who suffer. Leaders who can motivate and lead their spirits so that they can rise again.

Anecdotes from the book of Islam, written by M. Ebrahim Khan told the terrible plague attacked Syria in 639 AD, about 25,000 people died. News disturbing violent outbreak Caliph Umar in Medina. He left Medina to Syria to help review those who were still alive at all costs. The journey to Syria through the Christian town of Ayla. He rode camels, accompanied by several followers. In order Umar identity is unknown, he changed places with his assistants. Ayla enthusiastic residents who wanted to see Umar flocked to the street and wondered, "Where is Omar?". "Here it is in front of you," said Umar with a double purpose. Caliph camel is slow and the crowd rushed to follow him, because the thought Omar was still on the camel. On the on the camel was assistant Umar. Caliph Umar sneaked into the house of a priest during a hot day it was. Umar used robe torn because many heavy travel, and he gave to his host for repair. Sew back the priest's robes as he returns Umar, he offers a new robes for the hot weather. With thanks, the Caliph 'Umar refused to take it and would rather wear their own robes. Bilal is known as a muezzin of Allah, then living in Syria. When he died, he refused to work as a muezzin, and handed it to someone else. A few years later he participated in military expeditions to Syria and spent his old age there. On the eve of departure Umar left Syria, Damascus city authorities suggested that on this last occasion, Bilal should be asked to carry a call to prayer. The man was elderly and their demand from the top of the mosque tower, sounds familiar it reverberate with the sweet and hard. Remembering the days prayers with the Prophet, the pilgrims who come late in sobs. Even with the Muslim army commanders drowned Umar as well as tears. It turned out great muezzin's call to prayer is a call to his last, because after that Bilal died. Called by the Creator. Great muezzin's call to prayer is the call to welcome the leader of a fair and humble, and close to the people who suffer. Great leaders are Khathab Umar bin.

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

SIX SIGMA

The companies most admired world many implementing Six Sigma, such as General Electric, Motorola, Honeywell and others. Six Sigma is a goal that was almost perfect in meeting customer requirements. Six Sigma refers to the operating performance targets are measured statistically with only 3.4 errors per million activities. Six Sigma is also a cultural change effort to position the company on customer satisfaction, profitability and competitiveness of the larger. Six Sigma is a system of comprehensive and flexible to achieve, maintain and maximize business success, which is uniquely controlled by a strong understanding of customer needs, disciplined use of data, facts and statistical analysis and careful attention to managing, improving and reinvest the business processes .

Critical elements of the leadership consists of six themes. The first theme, the focus really to customers. Six Sigma in customer priority measures the performance of Six Sigma begins with the customer. Six Sigma improvement is determined by its impact on customer satisfaction and value.

The second theme, that management is driven by data and facts. Six Sigma discipline begins by clarifying what measures are a key measure of business performance, and then apply the data and analysis so as to build understanding of the key variables and optimal results.

The third theme, the focus on processes, management and improvement. In Six Sigma, the process is where the action begins. Ranging from product design, performance measurement, improved efficiency and customer satisfaction or even running a business. Six Sigma positions the process as a key vehicle and success. Mastery is a process of competitive advantage and deliver value to customers.

The fourth theme, proactive management. Six Sigma includes a number of tools and practices that replace reactive habits with a dynamic management style, responsive and proactive.

The fifth theme, collaboration without boundaries. Collaboration without borders demands a real understanding of the needs of end users and to the flow of work throughout a process or supply chain, using knowledge of customers and process all of the benefits that ultimately create an environment and management structure that supports the actual work teams.

The sixth theme, the urge to perfect and tolerance for failure. All the companies that make Six Sigma constantly encouraged to be more perfect than ever. Nevertheless tolerance of failure, too afraid of the consequences of mistakes will not ever tried the result of stagnation, decay and death over by the changes. Writes Pande, Neuman and Canavagh in the book The Six Sigma Way.

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LEARNING FROM MARILYN HAMILTON

Marilyn Hamilton is a former teacher and beauty queen and a successful businessman in Fresno, California. When the age of twenty-nine years, he survived a terrible accident, falling from a rocky cliff in a hang glider accident that made him a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down in 1978. In the face of difficult situations is what distinguishes successful people and failures in dealing with the situation. Hamilton Marilyn react by not focusing on that can not be done, but only focus on the possibility that he could do. He got a business opportunity instead of the tragedy he had experienced. By the time he uses a wheelchair, he was imprisoned and was obstructing the wheel chair. Then he got the idea to create a wheelchair better. He channeled his energy to designing a wheelchair that is lighter, easier to manage, with a modular frame, responsive performance and a pleasant personality.

Together with two friends founded the company named Quickie wheelchairs in California and co-founder of Motion Design in 1979. The company is recruiting employees for the first time in 1981. In 1986, the company purchased oelh Sunrise Medical. The company is a company that made the revolution of the wheel chair and now the company is a multimillion-dollar company. He also founded WOW (Winners on Wheels), which is a Boy Scout program for children with disabilities. Marilyn Hamilton currently as Vice President of Global Planning and Strategic Services at Sunrise Medical, Fresno, California.

Marilyn Hamilton has received numerous awards, completed during his life more than her partner. He has received two silver medals at the Paralympic Ski Championships and has twice won the U.S. Women's Open Wheelchair Tennis Tournament. Victory in Ski and Tennis championship has inspired a generation of athletes wheelchair. Marilyn has touched millions of lives and stories have appeared in various books, magazines, newspapers and television programs. He was awarded a California Business Woman of the Year and as a member of the California Governor's Hall of Fame for People with Disabilities. Marilyn Hamilton has given the world more than just a revolutionary wheelchair, but he has provided inspiration, encouragement and hope. Finally in 2005, he won the Hall of Fame in 2005 for the category of Entrepreneur. Marilyn Hamilton is more to see the positive side than on the negative side and try to release the limitations that. People who could see the positive side and the melpaskan of keterbatasn that will achieve success.

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GREAT COMPANY

In the book In Search of Excellence, written by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.., States that the factors that cause companies great, one of the key is "concern". Nothing more prominent theme in great companies than respect for the individual. A great company is a company that treats its human resources with respect and dignity. Companies who view their employees as partners and not as a tool.

Instead the company is not successful, if you look at human resources as a tool. For example in the normal conditions for meningkatkankan company profits by doing layoffs on a large scale. If this is done then the company will not be successful in the long run. Several companies in Indonesia still sees man as a tool. The new issue was widely, having held the largest shares of foreign companies, but they are not losing money, but to increase profits to the employees laid off as a way out. Unless employees are given the freedom to opt out out of the company with certain severance payments, but not forced to layoffs. Corporate leaders who just thought the benefits of the company alone is a narrow minded, so that such companies are deviating from the 1945 Constitution, namely Article 33, the economy developed as a joint effort based on the principle of the family. So should the owners not the employees laid off, but the leadership of the company. The company also deviate from the Company Social Responsibility. Such companies clearly see the company as a tool of human resources and will not be successful in the long run.

"A good company can know exactly where the productivity can be produced with good and without limit. Productivity comes from employee groups that challenged, empowered, have the spirit and appreciated. Productivity comes from each individual, making each person as part of every step taken and allow each person to think, have a role in the success of a company. In doing this, the productivity that we can not gradually but doubled "said Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric.

Meanwhile, Floris A. Maljers, while Unilever's CEO stated "the biggest obstacle faced by firms in the face of globalization is the limited human resources and not the capital resources".

The success of the companies most admired world reflects the magic that is achieved with respect to human resources rather than manipulate the human resources and looking at human resources as a tool. Companies that are able to respect the human resource is a great company.

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Increasing Emotional Intelligence

People who are intellectually smart is not often the most successful people in business and in their personal lives, Mayer and Salovey wrote in his book The Intelligence of Emotional Intelelligence based on survey results. According to Daniel Goleman, emotional intelligence includes self awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. Self-awareness of emotional awareness, accurate self-assessment and self-confidence.

To increase awareness of the emotions that must be done is to find out more about yourself and why emotions can occur emotions, aware of the link between feelings with the thought, done and said, knowing how it could affect performance and has a sense of values and personal goals.

To do an accurate self should be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of self, taking the time to reflect and learn from experience, opens with a sincere feedback, willing to accept the perspective is able to show a sense of humor and willing to see ourselves in a broad perspective.

To increase your confidence with a bold look with confidence, dare to declare its existence, the courage to voice unpopular views and willing to sacrifice for the sake of truth, firm, capable of making good decisions in uncertain conditions and depressed.

Self-regulation include self-control, reliable, caution adaptability and innovation. Increased self-control involves managing the increase in feelings of impulsivity and emotions that suppress, think positive, stay firm and not waver even in the most severe situations, think clearly and remain focused while under pressure.

To be more credible to show honesty and integrity, acting with ethics and never embarrass others, improve the reliability and authenticity of self, to admit mistakes and dare to reprove yourself wisely unethical actions and sticking to principles. Increased self-control also involves the ability of reliable and responsible to fulfill its obligation, flexible in handling change and challenges as well as being open to new ideas and new approaches and new information. Blue ocean strategy (Blue Ocean Strategy) requires a non-stop innovation.

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LEARNING FROM THE 'BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY'

W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne claim that Red Ocean Strategy is no longer effective to create growth and profits in the future. They both propose a new strategy called the Blue Ocean Strategy. Blue Ocean Strategy, considers that the competitive market is to create a space that no opponent. A vast market like the "blue ocean".

W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne claim that 86% use the Red Ocean Strategy, and only 14% who use the Blue Ocean Strategy. From the company that uses Red Ocean Strategy is to earn a total of 62% and 39% total profits, while companies that use the Blue Ocean Strategy is only getting 38% of total income but total profits 61%.

Cirque du Soleil is one company that uses Blue Ocean Strategy. Cirque du Soleil. Company founded in 1984 by a group of street performer, Cirque has done stage production featuring dozens of visits by about 40 million people in 90 cities around the world. In 20 years, Cirque has achieved revenues worldwide leader circus Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey. Both companies are world leaders circus to achieve it took 100 years.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus to design standards and compete with the circus on a scale similar declining market. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey uses the perspective of competition-based strategy, so that the circus industry finally appears to be unattractive. While Cirque du Soleil's success by not taking the market from the existing circus industry, the market historically children. Cirque du Soleil does not compete Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, for creating a new market that no opponent and make the competition irrelevant. Cirque du Soleil brought a new market in addition to the children is a new customer group of adults and corporate clients with not only a circus show, but it displays theater, opera and ballet, so the audience is willing to pay several times more than the usual traditional circus. Strategy of Cirque du Soleil is called Blue Ocean Strategy.

Blue Oceans is a whole industry that is not currently available, not known for its market space and there is no competition. In blue oceans are created that demand, not a hotly contested competition. Demand could grow quickly and profitably. To create blue oceans in two ways, the company can increase a complete new industry, such as eBay to create an auction, but online. The second way, blue oceans can be created from within red oceans when the company changed the existing industry boundaries, as practiced by Cirque du Soleil

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