R-E-S-P-E-C-T

It's a small card with four Nokia values. I recieved it on my first day working at Nokia Networks couple years ago. One of those values that I'm strongly believe (until now) that always be applied anywhere, anytime and with anyone: It's RESPECT. It's not so strange heard about respect but it will be mean a lot if it can be implemented correctly.

Before talking about Respect so far, I attached the meaning of Respect from Oxford Dictionary http://www.oup.com/oald-bin/web_getald7index1a.pl as below: "Respect: ~ (for sb/sth) polite behaviour towards or care for sb/sth that you think is important." It's quite cover about what respect is. I just wanna add another side of respect, the respect point not only with treat politely but correctly also and refer to above definition (from Oxford Dictionary) the entity of doing respect is somebody or something. It can be:
-somebody to somebody relationship (i.e: between people, people and his/her God)
-somebody to something relationship ( ie: people with system/environtment).

Sometimes,for the last entity (somebody to something) in particular almost without enough concern. Simple example: First case, if somebody doesn't feel brave to break traffic regulation due to any traffic police around him, means he respect as somebody to somebody entity ( in this case: he and traffic police). Second case, if there is no traffic police around him and he still don't have willingness to break the traffic regulation, means he already give respect as somebody to something (in this case: he and system/traffic regulation).

Respect should be natural (not artificial). Of course people should be treat one another with RESPECT (no reserve)!! But ... see sometimes some people treat respect based on their own particular interest. Don't treat RESPECT as comodity!! If it happened, the respect can't be implemented balance in proper proportion.
Respect will be empowered and growing together with wisdom as a part of our mature life. The wisdom will help to treat respect correctly in right time and right place. I learned how to treat respect and wisdom in any difference of opinion from my high school colleagues couple years ago. They (Nugoroho and Setiawan) have sharp different point a view in every scout movement race meeting. Always there are no meeting points between them due to they represent of two organisation that always be rival one another. What I learned from them: they kept maintain their personal relationship with respect eventhough they always opposited each other when they represented their organisation in any forums.

oh ... almost midnight ... suddenly spechless talk about respect, ok I will end up with last words.
"Respect the respect value by doing respect correctly and be humble!" .... getting confuse with this sentence? me too!! he2x ... GOOD NIGHT

Let's get linked in

A year in passing, one of my resolutions in 2007 already given a sign of good progress [off course make me sattisfied].What is that? Creating & maintaining my profesional network.

What for?

Okay, wait ... wait, let me start with the main idea first:

Everyone tend to lose touch with his/her former colleague of the particular period, and I'm also :( . I lost contact with some colleagues of my previous company in the past three years [exTrane & exSiemens Mobile]. I tried to contact their email, the worst thing happened: their email addresses & also mobile phones also were unactived/changed anymore [might be they already jumped to another company] ... and finally ... lost of contact.

It's the main reason why I started to maintain my profesional networking since 2007. Fortunetelly, I've found http://www.linkedin.com/ offered what I was looking for :) yeah. Through linkedin.com, I can maintain my profesional network realtime by getting update from my colleagues such as their new position, ability to recomend each other [see example attached] also opportunity to learn from them by tracing their professional path until their last position and searching another colleague whom long time no see and contact.

By watching the demo/link below (Source: Linkedin.com ), will help you to get the basic idea how linkedin contribution to develop your personal career. What is LinkedIn? from LinkedIn Marketing on Vimeo.

So how about you? Have you been involved in maintaining your professional network online [realtime]? or just through conventional approaches?
if not ...
It's NOT too LATE to START.
-Have a nice weekend!-

p.s.: for the last update from linkedin.com pls click http://blog.linkedin.com/

Happy New Year Again !!

Happy New Year again !! Yeah ... in 2008 ... it's our annually celebration through many common ways: sending & recieving greeting card/sms, visiting colleague/beloved family and others activities [new year eve in hotel, townhall, TV program and anything else]. In all those activities, we send our best wishes to our beloved family and friends for properous life in upcoming year.

You and me might be already listed our wishes & resolutions and for sure always hope the upcoming year should be better than before.

One thing came up in my mind, do we have the proven successful indicator of it? Or our resolution at the end will be acted as "empty promising slogan" ... the word without meaning?

I list my concern with BIG question mark ... related with our resolutions that off course should be adjusted into our action plan.
The question is How do we measure up our action? so we know exactly how close our outcome to our resolution at the end of 2008.
Honestly, I don't have any idea about the answer ... at least I try start this year in different way & perspective.
How about you?

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 :)