Sunday, August 10, 2008

Change to Succeed; Succeed to Change

A seminar held to help leper. All fund that collected from this seminar is given to the leper. The speaker of this seminar is Mr. James Gwee (Director of Academia & Training).
This seminar titled "Change to Succeed; Succeed to Change. Ideas to help you anticipate change and how to implement it." As usual, Indonesians people always late (ngaret). And this seminar, from the brochure, should be started at 12.. But, it started at 1 PM.. A videos was shown to show us the profile about Mr. James. After that, Mr James came out to the stage with very energetic (though not as energetic as Mr. Tung)..

My first task was to make 5 hand sign.. It was simple at first, before Mr James told me to do it using opposite hand (left hand)!! Though at first it was hard, but i manage to finish it. What I learn from this is CHANGE! After the task, he explained there are two kind of people from this task. First type is people who are WILLING to change, they are very happy with these change. Second type is people who are FORCED to change, these people are angry, flaunt, easily get sick.

If our action is A so the result is A.. If we want B (B is better than A) as a result, we MUST take action of B. B at first is uncomfortable, unpleasant, awkward, but as we go thorough this process we will enjoy this process. So, NEVER NEVER dream about B if we still have action of A.. What we want always be outside our comfortable area..
What are our barriers to change?
1. MENTAL BARRIER
from story above, opposite hand signed, some people may say, "Ah this is impossible!", "It can't be done", and other sigh..
2. PHYSICAL BARRIER
some people may find it's hard using left hand, or using eye glasses, etc, etc

GET OUT FROM YOUR COMFORT ZONE NOW!!

If you take same ACTION everyday, you will always get the same RESULTS.

If you want different RESULTS, you must CHANGE your ACTION!

Mr James gave me a comparison between General Motors and Microsoft.
GM has Sales in 1996 for U$ 168 billion, whereas Microsoft only has U$ 9 billion.
GM's asset in 1996 is U$ 222 billion, whereas Microsoft has only U$ 10 billion

BUT,
Microsoft's Market Value is U$ 120 billion, whereas GM's market value is only U$50 billion!

what happened with GM? They have 22x bigger asset than Microsoft, but their market value is half less than Microsoft's???
Mr James explained what now have changed. We are now living in A WHOLE NEW WORLD!!
Before 1750, it was Farming Period. Land is number 1. You have land, so you have money. That's why in this era they called someone who has land is LANDLORD. Woahh, LORD man..!! If you had Land, so you are LORD.. That's why some European states expanded their territory in Asia, Africa, South America.
He explained more, between 1750-2000, it was Industrial Period. It began with Industrial revolution. After James Watt found steam engine, the production system became more productive. Hence, land was not the most important anymore. The most important was capital, machines, and buildings!! In this period, you worked hard and you were paid good enough..

NOW! We are living in a new period. It is called Information Period. We are now living in a global village, where Knowledge, Information and Creativity are very important!! Why does the increase of fuel price affect the price of potato? Why does war in Iraq affect the rate of interest bank? Sometimes, it is not logic, but we are living in the world where everything is interlink!!
Old Paradigm says INFORMATION is Power. It happened because there was very very few people have TV and radio. Newspaper is also limited. In Indonesia, there was only one channel TV, TVRI. That's it. We did not have anything. If you had information, it mean that you were more powerful than other people.

How about now? New Paradigm says INFORMATION is PUBLIC Access. CREATIVE use of information is Power. SPEED is a Critical Success factor.
Mr James told about his story. He met his friend on Friday. His friend showed him dollar information from his mobile phone. James asked him, how do you know? He said "I get it from my mobile." Then James says, "you help me lah, set up my mobile also.." Then his friend set it up for James. James was very impressive, "ckck, it's cool man..!!"
Next Tuesday, James met his friend again. His friend says, "James, James. Today, I treat you lunch yaa. I just make money today." James shocked, "How you make money? tell me.." he told James, I got profit 40 million you know, from dollar. Last Friday, I bought dollar at cheaper price. Now the price is higher so I sold it!."
From this story, what is common from them? and what is the difference between them? Please answer my Q before you continue to the next part...


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