VDMS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
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September 26th, 2012 4/II/2012
QUOTE “I don’t care how much power, brilliance, or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold in there you are never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants” - Zig Ziglar
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As a leader, you must articulate a vision for everyone and not get caught up in managing minutiae. Involve everyone and welcome great ideas from everywhere. Understand what people want. If you know how to deal with the right communication in any situations, what they are after, you can provide it to them; in exchange, you will enjoy behavior that is less difficult and more helpful for you and your colleagues,
Inside This Issue “A” Note
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Cover Story Be an Assertive Leader to Reach Your Success
Sizzle Six Personality Types
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“As a leader, your job is not to do all the work yourself or to sit back and wait to catch people doing something wrong but to roll up and help them win.” How To Do
Formula 33
Sudahkah Waktu Anda Efektif?
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“Mengabaikan kuadran 2 dan memperbesar kuadran 1 menciptakan stress, kelelahan, dan krisis yang lebih dalam” 5
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Events RR West Java-Jakarta
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RR Yogyakarta Reshuffle
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Alumni Update Alumni Region
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Mini Gathering
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Alumni Sharing
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“A” Note There is always a beginning for everything that happens in everyone life. Many times everyone shares a common beginning. It can be a situation, a community, an experience in life, or an accident. People may freely name it. However the decision we make to respond to it creates the difference.
VDMS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Everyone is born to be a leader but it surely takes a decision to live a life with values as a leader. A leader cannot hide because a leader is a person of improvement whose life generates the spirit of leader into other people. I am Firman Laia. Greetings to all of you fellow alumni. It is an honor for me to have a chance to meet you all here, people who have decided to be a leader. I am always amazed with the fact that we have been through a common phase of beginning in life which was as a college student. We also have great experiences with VDMS. How great is the impact when we could align all our potentials into a common vision? Dear alumnus, now we have had the Alumni Association (AA) of VDMS as a media for us to get connected and share some potentials and ideas. I would like to encourage you all to get more involved with the vision that we are trying to realize through the regular activities from AA. Anyway, reading this e-newsletter is really a big step! There are so many worthy things in it.
VDMS Office Jl. Purwanggan No. 9 RT 32 RW 07 Kelurahan Purwokinanti, Kecamatan Pakualaman DI Yogyakarta 55112 Indonesia Phone: +62274-510406 Fax : +62274-556549 Email :
[email protected] VDMS website: www.vandeventermaas.org
Alumni Association’s Media Fb: www.facebook.com/groups/alumni.vdms Twitter: @alumniVDMS LinkedIn: VDMS Alumni Association (Group) Webite: alumnivandeventer.org
I believe we can learn together and encourage one another to meet our maximum potential through AA. And I really encourage you to take AA as a new beginning for your other leadership experience.
Firman Laia Chairman of Alumni Committee Scan this QR Code with your smart phone to visit our website
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Diary of a Leader Seven Inspiring Days SATURDAY – HAVE A GOAL Think ahead. Visualize your future. Set your target. Design your strategy. Plan before you start. Be flexible in your tactics, but keep on track. Strive after your dreams, but stay realistic.
SUNDAY – TAKE ACTION, TAKE RISKS Act and run risk. Calculate your risks, but stay moving. Failure may be an outcome. That’s part of the game. Learn from it. It adds to your experience. But never blame others, when you fail. That makes you stronger.
MONDAY – BE PROACTIVE Visualize the near future. Anticipate on what is coming. Be faster than your opponent, be faster than your competitor. Don’t be pushed to react. You are the leader, not the follower.
TUESDAY – BE CRITICAL Explore and scrutinize arguments. Always ask: why? How come? Is it true? Distrust the ‘automatic pilot’ used in the past. Be critical in a constructive way.
WEDNESDAY – BE CREATIVE Leave the traditional path, step aside. You will find the flowers in a nearby field. Give room to the unexpected. No: ”Yes, but...” Free your mind. Think out of the box. Think lateral. Don’t dig deeper, dig on another place. THURSDAY – BE DEMOCRATIC Listen carefully to your team, listen to your society. Absorb their opinions and standpoints. But always keep in mind, that you have to take the decision. That you are the leader, that it is your decision.
FRIDAY – SHARE YOUR POWER Don’t keep the power with you. Share it, be transparent. Guard your integrety. Be consistent. A word is a word. Involve and committ your team, be it two or a 1000. In the end people wholeheartedly will accept you as their leader.
Edwin Kisman, Leadership Conference, Prigen 8th August 2008
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COVER STORY Be an Assertive Leader to Reach Your Success
As a leader, you must articulate a vision for everyone and not get caught up in managing minutiae. Involve everyone and welcome great ideas from everywhere. Understand what people want. If you know how to deal with the right communication in any situations, what they are after, you can provide it to them; in exchange, you will enjoy behavior that is less difficult and more helpful for you and your colleagues.
There are four competencies of a leader: 1.
Risk Taking Push for excellence. Invest more effort in continual process improvement and more committed to their jobs.
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Communication Work together with enthusiasm and passion. Clearly communicate expectations. Preempt competition and promote collaboration.
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Flexibility Identify and remove barriers to performance. Work together in a cohesive manner. Continually adapt to change. Innovation Create more profitable products. Use ideas to add value. Implement superior cost-effective customer service.
Some situations need your assertiveness. Assertive communication is the most important thing to do for a leader. What assertive communication is Assertive communication is an ability to express both negative and positive feeling (i.e. open, honest, direct, etc). It recognizes your right and respect the right of others. It allows you to take responsibility without judging or blaming other people and to constructively confront for satisfying solution.
Your N eeds A ggressiv e
O ther’s N eeds Passive
Picture of Assertive Communication
So, why use assertive communication? It enables you to swap old behavior patterns for a more positive approach to life. The Advantages of Assertive Communication: 1.
As a leader, your job is not to do all the work 2. yourself or to sit back and wait to catch people doing something wrong but to roll up and help them win.
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Understanding people is the key to reach your success. Don’t think that you are working in an isolated place. Always connect with people in ways that make them feel better about what they are doing. Leading is influencing people, making people get involved to reach the goals. More attention and flexibility you give, more influence you can spread.
Feel good about ourselves and others Lead to the development / mutual respect with others
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Increase our self-esteem
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Help to achieve our goal
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Minimize hurting and alienating other people
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Reduce anxiety
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Protect from being taken advantage of by others
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Enable to make decisions and free choices in life
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Enable to express both verbal and non-verbal, wide range feeling or thoughts (positive and negative)
Get their attention and look direct to them. Say it with firm voice. Let’s solve it together.
The Disadvantages of Assertive Communication:
“As a leader, your job is not to do all the work yourself or to sit back and wait to catch people doing something wrong but to roll up and help them win.”
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Other may not approve style of communication and views of express
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Healthy regard for another person’s rights. You won’t always get what you want
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It involves risk that the others may not understand and therefore not accept this style of communication.
Communication Styles
HOW TO DO Time Management in Action for a teams: 1, Lead by example 2. Keep everyone aware that time is important 3. Create a time-management plan for your team 4. Match the right person to the right job 5. Organize your work area
Are you assertive at the workplace? Source: Jakarta. 2012. Assertive Communication— AC Management Training by Ani Fegda
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Six Personality Types
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Hamsters Do good work, get respect, BUT get nowhere when it comes to career advancement. Where do all their efforts go?
Invisible Beings They good work BUT nobody knows it.
http://www.mojo40.com/how-not-to-be-invisible-after-40/
Pit-bulls
Their overly aggressive behavior gets in the way of their success at work.
Dreamers Day dreaming shows a lack of self control that keeps them from advancing.
Whiners They constantly complain about exactly what they don’t like, yet expect others to speak up and change the situation.
Mutes They have a problem saying “no” and, for that matter, much of anything at all. Source: Jakarta. 2012. Assertive Communication—AC Management Training by Ani Fegda
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EVENTS
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RR Yogyakarta Reshuffle
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Central Java – Jogjakarta. Regional Representative held a reshuffle meeting of RR members on Saturday, September 1st 2012 in VDMS Office at Jalan Purwanggan no.09 Yogyakarta. Seven alumni attended the meeting. The reason of the reshuffle was that Mujiman as the chairman hold also a position as a treasurer of Alumni Committee. So, he had to choose the two positions because it might cause a conflict of interest, between AC and RR Yogyakarta. The participants showed high enthusiasm. In the beginning, Ibu Pariasih Manoto as the office manager explained about VDMS in Brief: the history, the partners, and introduced the new VDMS board member to the participants. It was really interesting because not all alumni knew much about the history of VDMS and the partners. After that, Pungky gave an explanation about Alumni Association: what Alumni Association is, the goals, logo, the activities, Alumni Committee, and media. The participants paid their full attention to this explanation because they wanted to participate in Alumni Association as members of RR Yogyakarta. It was continued by Jessica who explained and demonstrated how to join and update data in MAS (Membership Administration System). Mujiman as the previous chairman gave the explanation about RR, requirements, and responsibilities. From this exciting meeting, the new structure of RRYogyakarta -Central Java was established. The new structure is: Chairperson : Nizamuddin Sadiq (USD) Secretary : Yana Prihati (UKSW) Treasurer : Imas Istiani (UNNES) Member : Nathaniel Ramandey (UKDW) UGM Ambassador : Vicky Primandani (UGM) The Question and answer section made a great impact on the new RR Yogyakarta. They got what they wanted to know about the responsibilities they hold.
discussed some plans for the next alumni events. The planned events of the new RR Yogyakarta and Central Java are: 1. Workshop: “Formula 33” An English training with a method called “Formula 33”. It will give participants the tips and trick “how to understand English correctly and quickly”. 2. Alumni Gathering Either formal (kind of seminar) or non-formal (mini reunion) 3. Start a Business for Alumni (Seminar) 4. Charity For this social activity we can join a social institution or organization with the proposed field education. The last but not least of this meeting was the explanation of the rules of events. The meeting was closed by Mujiman. At this event, Alumni Association sold 5 alumni t-shirts. The alumni t-shirt will be useful for gathering, meeting or any other event. So, this t-shirt will become our identity as an alumnus of Van Deventer - Maas Stichting Grantee.
The brainstorming session went well. The new RR Yogyakarta Congratulations for new RR Yogyakarta! Keep spirit to accomplish our goal! See you on the next RR Yogyakarta’s event. Learn, Share, and Encourage
INSPIRING LINKS www.workcoachcafe.com www.figuringoutfulfillment.com www.positivesharing.com
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www.theworkbuzz.com
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Formula 33
Formula 33 diciptakan oleh Prof. Dr. Gunawan, pensiunan dosen Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY) tahun 1976. Saat itu, Pak Gun, sapaan akrab beliau, ingin sekali membantu memecahkan masalah orang-orang yang merasa kesulitan belajar Bahasa Inggris. Berbasis kemampuan beliau di bidang ilmu teknik (Pak Gun pernah kuliah di UGM lalu keluar), dan keyakinan bahwa alam diciptakan sedemikian sempurna dan sangat teratur, beliau kemudian merangkum sebuah metode belajar Bahasa Inggris secara pasti, sepasti ilmu pasti yang kemudian beliau beri nama “Rumus 33” atau “Rumus Pasti”. Oleh penulis, “Rumus 33” disebarluaskan dengan sebutan Formula 33. Kelebihan dari Formula ini berasal dari kombinasi sinergis sistem pengetahuan tata gramatikal bahasa Inggris yang memadukan 3 jenis kalimat yakni verbal, nominal dan passive (VNP) ke dalam satu konsep yang utuh dan bulat. Utuh dan bulat maksudnya bahwa pembelajar Bahasa Inggris akan dengan sangat cepat memahami ketiga pola kalimat Bahasa Inggris dengan sekali jalan. Dengan kata lain, formula 33 mengintegrasikan ketiga pola kalimat menjadi satu sehingga pemahaman pembelajar utuh dan tidak terpisah-pisah. Apalagi penjelasan untuk sampai menuju rumus sangat sistematis, sistemis, dan logis. Hal inilah yang menjadikan formula ini sangat mudah untuk dipelajari. Siapa saja yang bisa mempelajari formula 33 ini? Setidaknya pelajar SMP kelas 1 sudah dapat memahami konsep ini. Terlebih lagi bagi mereka yang sama sekali belum memiliki dasar memahami kalimat Bahasa Inggris, Formula 33 adalah solusinya. Untuk memahami formula 33 ini hanya diperlukan 3 langkah, yakni memahami konsep VNP, memahami konsep waktu, dan memahami konsep aspek. Ketika 3 langkah ini sudah dipahami maka akan didapat satu-satunya rumus. Rumus ini didapat dengan menggabungkan rumus-rumus waktu dan aspek. Gabungan rumus-rumus inilah yang disebut dengan “watak rumus” . Sebuah kalimat kalau sudah diketahui wataknya akan dengan cepat pula diketahui rumusnya. Setelah rumus diketahui langkah terakhir adalah membuat kalimat Bahasa Inggrisnya.
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hasa Inggris karena terdapat sebagian kata kerja yang tidak patuh pada peraturan ekor “–ed”. Di sekolah, kata-kata kerja ini tergolong ke dalam irregular verbs. Dalam konsep formula 33, kata kerja tersebut diberi sebutan kata kerja kurang ajar. Dimana letak kekurangajarannya? Katakata tersebut tidak patuh pada peraturan ekor “-ed”. Kata kerja kurang ajar harus dipelajari karena apabila tidak dikuasa maka dapat dipastikan tidak bisa membuat kalimat pasif. Untuk melengkapi konsep formula 33, khususnya untuk membuat kalimat menidakkan dan tanya, maka dimunculkan pula istilah “sumpel” atau “kepala rumus”. Sumpel ini adalah kata-kata kecil yang memiliki fungsi yang sangat penting dalam pembentukan kalimat menidakkan dan tanya. Sumpel merupakan gabungan tiga istilah yakni auxiliary verbs, to be dan modals. Lebih lanjut mengenai Formula 33, kunjungi http://alumnivandeventer.org/formula-33/ Bagaimana konsep-konsep tersebut dapat membantu kita dalam menguasai Bahasa Inggris? Temukan jawabannya di Workshop Formula 33 yang diselenggarakan oleh RR Yogyakarta-Jawa Tengah. Nizamuddin Sadiq - Chairman of RR Yogyakarta-Central Java
IDIOMS 1.
word of mouth = Information passed on through conversation is transmitted by word of mouth.
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drop someone a line = If you drop someone a line, you write a letter to them.
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touch base = If you touch base with someone, you make contact or renew communication with them.
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spread like wildfire = If something such as news, rumors or gossip spreads like wildfire, it becomes widely known very fast.
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put someone in the picture = If you give somebody all the information necessary to enable them to fully understand a situation, you put them in the picture.
Salah satu kesulitan ketika membuat kalimat Ba-
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Sudahkah Waktu Anda Efektif ?
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Setiap orang di seluruh dunia memiliki waktu 24 jam sehari. Waktu tidak akan mungkin bertambah. Pernahkah merasa waktu terasa kurang? Bukan hanya Anda saja yang merasakan hal tersebut. Lalu, apa yang harus dilakukan? Mari mencari tahu, sudahkah Anda mengalokasikan waktu dengan benar? Prinsip Pareto
“Mengabaikan kuadran
Buatlah prioritas, bijaksanalah dalam menggunakan waktu.
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80 % pekerjaan memberikan hasil 20% dan 20 % pekerjaan memberikan hasil 80 %.
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One Rp. 500 /- vs Hundred of Rp.5/-
Investasi dalam Kuadran 2, agar kuadran 1 menyusut.
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Efektif vs Efisien
Kuadran 3— Utuslah Orang Lain
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Smart work vs Hard work
2 dan memperbesar
Kita mengenal ada empat kuadran beserta prioritasnya. Berikut ini gambaran Kuadran:
kuadran 1 menciptakan
High
krisis yang lebih dalam”
IMPORTANCE
stress, kelelahan, dan
URGENCY
Low
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Urgent and important Do it now
Important not urgent Decide when to do it
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Urgent not important Delegate it
N ot Important not urgent Dump it
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Kuadran 1—Lakukan Sekarang Hal yang “mendesak” dan “penting” - kita menghabiskan banyak waktu di sini. Di sinilah kita kelola, kita produksi. Kita membawa pengalaman dan penilaian kita untuk merespon kebutuhan dan tantangan. Banyak kegiatan penting menjadi mendesak melalui penundaan, atau karena kita tidak melakukan pencegahan yang cukup dan perencanaan. Kuadran 2—Putuskan Kapan Melakukan Termasuk kegiatan yang “penting”, tetapi “tidak mendesak” - Kuadran Kualitas. Di sinilah kita melakukan perencanaan jangka panjang, mengantisipasi dan mencegah masalah, memberdayakan orang lain, memperluas pikiran kita dan meningkatkan ketrampilan kita. Mengabaikan kuadran 2 dan memperbesar kuadran 1 menciptakan stress, kelelahan, dan krisis yang lebih dalam.
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Termasuk hal-hal yang “mendesak, tapi tidak penting” - Quadrant of Deception. Suara urgency menciptakan ilusi penting. Kegiatan sebenarnya, jika mereka penting sekali, atau penting bagi orang lain. Banyak panggilan telepon, pertemuan-pertemuan, dan lain-lain termasuk ke dalam kategori ini. Kuadran 4—Coret/Hilangkan Disediakan untuk kegiatan yang “tidak mendesak, tidak penting” - Kuadran Limbah. Kita sering “melarikan diri” ke kuadran 4 untuk bertahan hidup. Membaca novel adiktif, menonton acara televisi tanpa berpikir, atau bergosip di kantor akan memenuhi syarat sebagai kuadran 4 – buang waktu. Daftarlah kegiatan Anda dan masukkan ke kuadran yang sesuai. Dari daftar tersebut, Apakah Anda di Kuadran 1 karena urgency atau importance -nya? Jika urgensi mendominasi, dan importance-nya memudar, Anda akan tergelincir ke dalam Kuadran 3. Tapi jika Anda berada di Kuadran 1 karena importancenya, dan urgency-nya memudar Anda akan pindah ke kuadran 2. Lebih lanjut mengenai kuadran dan time wasters, kunjungi http://alumnivandeventer.org/efektif-waktu/
Source: Jakarta. 2012. Time Management—AC Management Training oleh Ani Fegda.
Alumni Region
ALUMNI UPDATE
There are nine regions spread around Indonesia. The area are:
Data per September 19th , 2012
Abroad:
2,02 %
15,49 % 3,7 %
4,38 %
27,61% 6,73 %
1,35 %
23,23 % 5,39%
12,12 %
Mini Gathering Did you hold or join a mini reunion among alumni? Please send or tag your photo to us. Who knows your photo will be published on e-newsletter. Be inspired, be inspiring!
Alumni of LC 7 Jakarta, August 11th - From left to right: Donny, Euis, Tuti, Ayu, and Yosia
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Yogyakarta, September 15 - From left to right: Andreas, Vicky, Rahmanu, Chrisan, Intan, Nizam, Pungky, and Jessica
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Alumni Sharing
TWEET
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give". Winston Churchill. Below are Alumni’s Program for society. Take a look ! If you are interested and want to participate, please contact them 1.
Difa Stefanie Program: Donate your books to Flores—”berbagi buku ke flores" http://difastefanie.blogspot.com/2012/08/flores-just-like-heaven.html?spref=fb Location : Flores, NTT More Information Twitter : @sang_difa Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/sang.difa Phone/sms :-
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Jessica Permatasari Program: Love for Children
http://jesspermatasari.blogspot.com/2012/09/love-for-children.html Location : Semarang, Central Java More Information Twitter : @SicaPermata Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/jessica.permatasari.5 Phone/sms : 0856-4084-4001
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Loh Ami Nazarieti Program: Society for Development — need trainers n ideas how to fundraise, need young talented
youth to join the board, handy craft skill. Location : Malang, East Java More Information Twitter : @nazarieti Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/nazarieti Phone/sms : 0897-0409-300
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Muhammad Abdul Kadir Program: Capacity building in educational dorm Location : West Java, Kalimantan More Information Twitter :— Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/adi.stei Phone/sms : 0857-2311-8986
Let’s help them! Do you have programs which need help from other Alumni? Please don’t hesitate to share.
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn’t written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences, are being fundamentally revised. Chemistry is just becoming a science; psychology, economics, and sociology are waiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein. If the rah-rah boys in our colleges could be told this, they might not all be specialists in football, parties, and unearned degrees. They are not told it, however; they are told to learn what is known. This is nothing.
Nothing is done. Everything waits for you to do it!!
Lincoln Steffens—1931 Source: Foster, Jack. 2007. How to Get Ideas.
