HAPPINESS IS NOT NUMBERS, NUMBERS

Fortune magazine and Forbes magazine to use numbers to assess the company's success or failure. The success of the company is shown by the large sales figures, the magnitude of the numbers benefit, productivity figures, large numbers through ability global market, the magnitude of the numbers issued to improve the performance human resources and large numbers to improve the image company. Most large companies the figure is a company that the top of the world. Similarly, the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) the company also with the numbers assessed success. CEO feel happy about the numbers that have been targeted to be achieved. The figures showing the success of this is being pursued by the CEOs in antero world. CEO Richard McGinn was Lucent Technologies, never succeeded in changing the equipment manufacturing division of AT & T became a star Wall Street after reaching double-digit increase in sales (more than 10%). But it will not last forever and in 2000, Lucent twice failed to reach the target. The problem is the sales force. Of business media reports, orders to the troops McGinn sales transaction is manifest, any barriers. According to the media Lucent promising various discounts, credits and other incentives to stimulate sales. When he failed to achieve the target return, all broken and lying McGinn, Lucent's stock price fell and the future corporate chaos. McGinn felt sad for not able to meet the numbers made. Pramod Batra in his book Born To Win tells the story of Henry Ford and Florist. Henry Ford bought flowers for his wife from a shop every Friday night. One time he asked the flower seller older. "Sir, your store bestseller. Why not open a branch? "Ask Henry Ford. "Yes, after that continue?" Replied the vendor relationship with asked again. "You will have several branches in Detroit." Said Ford. Flower seller, "Yes, after that continue?". Henry Ford "Then in across America ". Flower seller, "Yes, after that continue?". Henry Ford, with a little angry "God. Of course, you'll be happy. ". "Yes, I it's happy now, "replied the florist. Henry Ford passed with shame. That is the difference of happiness of people measured by numbers and not with numbers. Gauge florist happiness is not with numbers, while Henry Ford to measure happiness with numbers, ie numbers subsidiary, or the rate of profit company. Most of us, often measuring happiness by the numbers numbers, ie the number of houses or housing prices, the number of cars, number of companies, the number of the figures in savings, stock figures ownership of the company and the other numbers in hopes of happy. That was the numbers that would plunge us, if we are not able to use the numbers well. If we can live happily with the numbers, then we can die horribly with Besides numbers. Not the number that makes happy. "Dahilan grace-the grace of God that ye may be happy "(Al-A'raaf, 69).