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ABDURRAHMAN BIN AUF SELALU GAGAL JADI ORANG MISKIN Jika tiba-tiba kondisi ekonomi "down", saya selalu terhibur mengingat kisah bisnis Abdurrahman bin Auf, tentang investasinya membeli kurma busuk. Suatu ketika Rasulullah Saw berkata, Abdurrahman bin Auf r.a akan masuk surga terakhir karena terlalu kaya. Ini karena orang yang paling kaya akan dihisab paling lama. Maka mendengar ini, Abdul Rahman bin Auf r.a pun berfikir keras, bagaimana agar bisa kembali menjadi miskin supaya dapat masuk syurga lebih awal. Setelah Perang Tabuk, kurma di Madinah yang ditinggalkan sahabat menjadi busuk. Lalu harganya jatuh. Abdurrahman bin Auf r.a pun menjual semua hartanya, kemudian memborong semua kurma busuk milik sahabat r.hum tadi  dengan harga kurma bagus. Semuanya bersyukur..Alhamdulillah..kurma yang dikhawatirkan tidak laku, tiba-tiba laku keras! Diborong semuanya oleh Abdurrahman bin Auf. Sahabat gembira. Abdurrahman bin Auf r.a pun gembira. Semua happy! Sahabat lain gembira ...

Growing up in New Zealand, where there are twenty times as many sheep as people, Sarah Robb O’Hagan wanted to be a veterinarian. When poor grades in science crushed that dream, she decided to see the world. She applied to Air New Zealand’s training program, but she failed a required IQ test. Refusing to take no for an answer, Sarah launched a campaign to get her foot in the door. She started pitching ideas for how she could contribute to the airline’s growth. There were hundreds of applicants for just six spots and Sarah didn’t get one. But Air New Zealand decided to open up a seventh slot just for her. Sarah blossomed at Air New Zealand, and ended up landing a big new job at Virgin Atlantic Airways. Soon she was pitching Richard Branson on a campaign with the Austin Powers movie—they ended up rebranding the airline Virgin Shaglantic. At 26, Sarah was recruited to run marketing for Virgin’s retail stores. The following year, she got fired. Broke and unemployed, Sarah thought she’d...

By: Elly Risman (Senior Psikolog dan Konsultan, UI) Kita tidak pernah tahu, anak kita akan terlempar ke bagian bumi yang mana nanti, maka izinkanlah dia belajar menyelesaikan masalahnya sendiri . Jangan memainkan semua peran, ya jadi ibu, ya jadi koki, ya jadi tukang cuci. ya jadi ayah, ya jadi supir, ya jadi tukang ledeng, Anda bukan anggota tim SAR! Anak anda tidak dalam keadaan bahaya. Tidak ada sinyal S.O.S! Jangan selalu memaksa untuk membantu dan memperbaiki semuanya. Anak mengeluh karena mainan puzzlenya tidak bisa nyambung menjadi satu, "Sini...Ayah bantu!". Tutup botol minum sedikit susah dibuka, "Sini...Mama saja". Tali sepatu sulit diikat, "Sini...Ayah ikatkan". Kecipratan sedikit minyak "Sudah sini, Mama aja yang masak". Kapan anaknya bisa? Kalau bala bantuan muncul tanpa adanya bencana, Apa yang terjadi ketika bencana benar-benar datang? Berikan anak-anak kesempatan untuk menemukan solusi mereka sendiri. Kemamp...

I saw this image in a post a while back and it really bothered me. At the same time, it made me realize how happy I am that this leadership mentality is hopefully on its way out. Remember the movie Office Space? Remember the scene with “The Bobs” when Peter is being brutally honest with both of them? If not, you can click on this link and refresh your memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoC7e-mqPCc  "That will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired." That line stuck with me from the moment I watched the movie for the first time. It’s so true. I think we’ve all had those jobs, especially early on in our careers when we were at the bottom. Bottom of the barrel. Bottom of the totem pole. Bottom of the food chain. However you call it. We were newbies. We had to do the dirty work that nobody else wanted to do. And what was our main motivator? To get out from under the bottom of the barrel. Why did we get up and go to that crap job? Because if we didn’t, we’d ...

$100,000 a year is only $273 a day. $273 a day is only $11/hr if you have a business that is running 24 hours. If you're only working 8 hours a day...how are you suppose to make up the other 16 hours? You see...there is nothing wrong with having a job. A 9-5 pays the bills, but it's not meant to keep you forever. Save money and invest in a business. It's time to learn how to make money in your sleep, 24/7. For things to change you have to change. by: Hamel Chauhan Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6251874886755577856/

Ijin share pengalaman dari teman yang sekarang bekerja di Chevron, California...* Bagus untuk anak - cucu kita: Jumat lalu kedua anak saya menerima Report Card dari sekolahnya Ronald Reagan Elementary School. Di Indonesia namanya rapot. Melihat keduanya dapat nilai-nilai yang sangat bagus sementara tidak tercantum info tentang rangking, saya tergoda bertanya ke salah satu gurunya. “Anak saya ranking berapa, Ms. Batey?”. “Kenapa anda orang Asia selalu nanya gitu?”, jawabnya. (Weleh, salah apa ane ya, batin saya.) “Anda sangat suka sekali berkompetisi. Di level anak anda, tidak ada rangking2an. Tidak ada kompetisi. Kami mengajari mereka tentang cooperation alias kerjasama. Mereka harus bisa bekerja dalam team work dan mereka harus bisa cepat bersosialisasi dan beradaptasi. Mereka harus punya banyak teman. Lebih penting bagi kami untuk mengajari mereka story telling dan bagaimana mengungkapkan isi pikiran dalam bahasa yang terstruktur dan sistema...