2 good career lesson from “Green Zone” (a 2010 movie)

Warning: Might contain spoiler of the movie. So, Green Zone (wiki here) was just released at Cinemas in Jakarta, and I was lured at another chance of war movie. The movie was well made and it was fun to watch, but a more important thing went in my mind as I see the movie, 2 [...]

4 options that influence men success level and happiness

4 options that influence men success level and happiness I start to learn rather early in life (circa 11 years old) about the 4 options that men can take when face with the gap between their existing condition and capability and the desires and dreams they have. 1. Action: with Action, men seize the initiative [...]

A pinch of naive is the price to innovate

One of my responsibility is “creating and implementing sales improving initiatives”, i’m new to this responsibility, so i’ve been called inexperience and even naive. For me, the inexperience part is inevitable since i’m still quite young, but naive part, is really, a deliberate option on my part.

The Most Powerful Tool for Positive Influence: Attention

http://the-positive-manager.blogspot.com/2009/12/most-powerful-tool-for-positive.html What is the most effective tool that you have to influence the behavior of others – whether you use it purposefully or by accident? The answer is so simple that most people can’t believe it. It is your attention – eye contact, grunting, nodding, giggling – any response you make to another person’s behavior [...]

Sense of Ownership

I. The situation In my team, I have great staff members and not so great ones. Let’s talk a bit about definition about “great” and “not so great” before we continue: Great: independent in completing a job; able to balance finding own solution with checking with me when faced with issues; take time to think [...]

Is it really there? This difference between the gen Y’s and the other generations?

I’ve read some articles (newspaper, mags, blogs, and pieces of books) about the difference between Gey Y (~ 1980-1999), Gen X (~ 1965-1980) and Baby Boomers (~ 1945-1965) in the work place. I wonder whether these articles are really relevant, some parts of it is not, but i found some part of comparison which are [...]

How organization can be stiffled by their mindset about people

After working some more and see more workings of other organization, i’m impressed by the extent of the role of people in the organization. Saying “organization is all about the people in it” make sense, since organization is nothing but a group of people working toward a (supposedly) common goal or purpose. But to see [...]