Sumatera - Pulau Emas

Dalam berbagai prasasti, pulau Sumatera disebut dengan nama Sansekerta: Suwarnadwipa (“pulau emas”) atau Suwarnabhumi (“tanah emas”). Nama-nama ini sudah dipakai dalam naskah-naskah India sebelum Masehi. Sumatera juga dikenal sebagai pulau Andalas. Pada masa Dinasti ke-18 Fir'aun di Mesir (sekitar 1.567SM-1.339SM), di pesisir barat pulau sumatera telah ada pelabuhan yang ramai, dengan nama Barus. Barus (Lobu Tua - daerah Tapanuli) diperkirakan sudah ada sejak 3000 tahun sebelum Masehi. Barus dikenal karena merupakan tempat asal kapur barus. Ternyata kamper atau kapur barus digunakan sebagai salah satu bahan pengawet mummy Fir'aun Mesir kuno.

Di samping Barus, di Sumatera terdapat juga kerajaan kuno lainnya. Sebuah manuskrip Yahudi Purba menceritakan sumber bekalan emas untuk membina negara kota Kerajaan Nabi Sulaiman diambil dari sebuah kerajaan purba di Timur Jauh yang dinamakan Ophir. Kemungkinan Ophir berada di Sumatera Barat. Di Sumatera Barat terdapat gunung Ophir. Gunung Ophir (dikenal juga dengan nama G. Talamau) merupakan salah satu gunung tertinggi di Sumatera Barat, yang terdapat di daerah Pasaman. Kabarnya kawasan emas di Sumatera yang terbesar terdapat di Kerajaan Minangkabau. Menurut sumber kuno, dalam kerajaan itu terdapat pegunungan yang tinggi dan mengandung emas.

Konon pusat Kerajaan Minangkabau terletak di tengah-tengah galian emas. Emas-emas yang dihasilkan kemudian diekspor dari sejumlah pelabuhan, seperti Kampar, Indragiri, Pariaman, Tikus, Barus, dan Pedir. Di Pulau Sumatera juga berdiri Kerajaan Srivijaya yang kemudian berkembang menjadi Kerajaan besar pertama di Nusantara yang memiliki pengaruh hingga ke Thailand dan Kamboja di utara, hingga Maluku di timur. Kini kekayaan mineral yang dikandung pulau Sumatera banyak ditambang. Banyak jenis mineral yang terdapat di Pulau Sumatera selain emas.

Sumatera memiliki berbagai bahan tambang, seperti batu bara, emas, dan timah hitam. Bukan tidak mungkin sebenarnya bahan tambang seperti emas dan lain-lain banyak yang belum ditemukan di Pulau Sumatera. Beberapa orang yakin sebenarnya Pulau Sumatera banyak mengandung emas selain dari apa yang ditemukan sekarang. Jika itu benar maka Pulau Sumatera akan dikenal sebagai pulau emas kembali.

My view about mobile phone

   Nowadays, many people think that mobile phone is very important to be used because it has lots of advantages for us to keep contact with other people. Beside that, many people disagree with the mobile phone because it will not available in every place, and expensive. Therefore, many people disagree with the mobile phone. In my opinion, mobile phone is very needed as modern era right now because it will make our job easier to be done, such as searching and browsing anything that we wants during the meeting or a rainy day so it will very needed in that condition.

In additional, by having mobile phone we would like to have friend in other country and keep a communication among us and when we have problems in our daily life, we can directly contact them to come and help us. And also can listen to the music in every where.

Leadership and Management

Management's primary focus is on the conceptual side of the business, such as planning, organizing, and budgeting. It does the leg work to make visions reality. Do NOT equate the term “management" with “controlling people." Management is more about ensuring that the organization's resources are allocated wisely, rather than trying to control people. In fact, good managers know that trying to control others is extremely difficult if not impossible. Thus management helps to acquire, integrate, and allocate resources in order to accomplish goals and task.

Going back to the above example of increasing informal learning by implementing a new social media tool, the managers must look at the real goal, rather than the tool. The real goal is to increase informal learning and human interactions in order to make them more effective, not to put into place a media tool. If the tool becomes the primary goal, then the wrong polices could be put into place that decrease its value as an informal learning tool, for example, implementing a policy that no one in the company can ask a question on Twitter as it might make us look stupid or our competitors will know what we are trying to do.

This policy removes the real purpose of the tool—enabling the employees to learn informally from each other. Secondly, if the focus is only on the tool, then other options are omitted, such as tearing down cubicles and creating spaces where people can meet. In contrast, Leadership deals with the interpersonal relations such as being a teacher and coach, instilling organizational spirit to win, and serving the organization and workers. Leadership and Management Management's primary focus is on the conceptual side of the business, such as planning, organizing, and budgeting. It does the leg work to make visions reality.

Do NOT equate the term “management" with “controlling people." Management is more about ensuring that the organization's resources are allocated wisely, rather than trying to control people. In fact, good managers know that trying to control others is extremely difficult if not impossible. Thus management helps to acquire, integrate, and allocate resources in order to accomplish goals and task. Going back to the above example of increasing informal learning by implementing a new social media tool, the managers must look at the real goal, rather than the tool.

The real goal is to increase informal learning and human interactions in order to make them more effective, not to put into place a media tool. If the tool becomes the primary goal, then the wrong polices could be put into place that decrease its value as an informal learning tool, for example, implementing a policy that no one in the company can ask a question on Twitter as it might make us look stupid or our competitors will know what we are trying to do. This policy removes the real purpose of the tool—enabling the employees to learn informally from each other. Secondly, if the focus is only on the tool, then other options are omitted, such as tearing down cubicles and creating spaces where people can meet. In contrast, Leadership deals with the interpersonal relations such as being a teacher and coach, instilling organizational spirit to win, and serving the organization and workers.