Entries from February 2008
February 22, 2008 · 1 Comment
Seri The Dancing Leader
Saya tengah memimpin dua organisasi yang sangat berbeda. Ibarat sebuah musik. Organisasi yang satu seperti rock, keras, bertenaga, cepat, dalam keteraturan yang terpimpin. Organisasi yang lain seperti jazz, ritme penuh improvisasi mendekati liar, bisa penuh keras bertenaga yang tiba-tiba bisa lembut mendayu. Keteraturan dalam ketidakteraturan.
Organisasi yang satu bekerja mengarah pada target. Aturan-aturan yang tertulis. Kualitas yang terjaga. Cepat menyelesaikan pekerjaan. Kepemimpinan yang jelas. Organisasi yang lain. Bekerja mengarah pada kesenangan. Aturan kata-kata. Kualitas terbaik, terkadang menurun. Sungguh menikmati waktu. Kepemimpinan berganti-ganti.
Bayangkan. Bagaimana saya menari di dua pentas tersebut? Atau anda sendiri yang justru mengalami hal seperti itu? (more…)
Categories: The Dancing Leader
“I would like to commend you more particularly for your methodology of Appreciative Inquiry and to thank you for introducing it to the United Nations. Without this, it would have been very difficult, perhaps even impossible, to constructively engage so many leaders of business, civil society, and government” (United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, June 21, 2004 , United Nations Leaders Summit in mid-2004)
“We create our organisations based on our anticipations of the future. The image of the future guides the current behaviour of any system.” David Cooperrider, 2007 (Appreciative Inquiry course)
Categories: Appreciative Inquiry
Seri The Dancing Leader
Semalam, Damai sulit tidur. Gara-gara kipas angin. Damai yang sudah kliyep-kliyep, mau bobo. Tiba-tiba bangun ketika tahu bapaknya datang. “pas anyin, pas anyin” katanya sambil berlari menyambut kipas angin yang tengah saya bawa. Tak terasa 1 jam dia bermain dengan kipas angin. Tidur pun minta ke kamar nenek, tempat kipas angin itu diletakkan. Merengek. Menangis. Memukul pintu kamar. Pokoknya menolak tidur, terlebih di kamarnya sendiri. (more…)
Categories: The Dancing Leader
Transcript of Commencement Speech at Stanford given by Steve Jobs
Thank you. I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. (more…)
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