Learning from the future

"A good leader and understand the direction of change, will lead by example. He was ahead, make sacrifices for the good. He invites others to make sacrifices, without having to feel miserable. "-Rhenald-Kasali

One morning suddenly entered an SMS from a friend. He asked the question, "Why do the motivator, trainer, and consultant, not a great world leader who makes major changes to the welfare of mankind, making history? They are fun just to motivate people and talk a lot about leadership, without becoming the main perpetrators. " Dug! Because of my profession trainers and consultants, and on many occasions asked to be a motivator, my question is quite intrusive, but on the other side is also forced me to think to find the answers.

Motivator, trainer, and consultant, as well as doctors, lawyers, presidents, governors, party chairman, and members of the legislature, is a profession. While the leader, leader, not a profession, but the role and personal qualities as well as a person. The implication is, a president, governor, and chairman of political parties is not necessarily a leader. Conversely, a consultant, doctor, or lawyer is not necessarily not a leader. While there are certain professions which actually require leadership capacity - ability to perform the role as leader and personal qualities as a leader - which is relatively higher than other professions.

Let's see as the role of leader. A role is indicated by a set of behavioral patterns. Do not forget the basic formula that the behavior is a function - a reflection, as a result - the old mindset. Recall the relationship: how you think is how you act, is WHO you are. In this context a person called a leader because he was acting leader, which is the impact of leader mindset as well.

How can a thought leader? Leader of thinking how to deal with, and even win a change. How does the organization or society can pursue a wave of turbulence, and not just survive, but also able to jump to a higher level. Leaders recognize that in order not collapsed under the changes he should have a clear vision, which was then in-buy-ins by their followers, so that later became the shared-vision, a shared vision. Vision clear makes leader knew exactly what to do, and why it has to be done, if possible he need help to manage the complexities that arise as the impact of wave turbulence how resource mobilization plan should be done, and budgets that make consequences.

This is where the point of difference that makes a leader to be so unique. Leader oriented to the future (one day) in a completely different place (be somewhere), not merely re-inventing the wheel, to wallow with the classic problem of it to the spot. He was very courageous dreaming through the boundaries of reality, because he was living up to that creating the future - learning from the future - it is his duty. For a true leader, history and the present is a teacher and warning not to repeat the folly that had already made, mired in the same hole, but by no means limiting the corridor, especially blocked shackle freedom of thought and dreamed.

Dreaming is a basic requisite competence leader. Not just a dream, but to visualize in your mind so as to reach the point of dissociation. Dissociation is a condition in which we like to see a video recording of our dreams - complete with pictures, sound, and sensation (visual, auditory, Kinesthetic) - where we see ourselves in the film as a main actor. Disosiasion brain and mind that makes us "fooled", capturing the imagination that, our dream, as reality, thereby becoming a very strong reference, and in turn are able to create a sense of certainty, feeling sure, which build our faith, belief, against the vision . And do not forget, a sense of certainty, belief, is an order absolute, unquestioned command, on the nervous system and biochemical processes in our body, which in turn will raise the unlimited potential that previously soundly asleep.

There is a small story about this. It seems, in commemoration of Independence Day, ten pups initiated the race to climb the tower frog. Curious crowds gathered to see the race which was unusual. They clapped and cheered, but his life is not motivated, even opposite, ridicule and deny the possibility of a frog's tenth child will succeed. True also what the audience, one by one the children slid down the frog. Shouts the audience increasingly brutal and increasingly many competitors who slipped and failed. But wait a minute. There was one child who did not move frogs. It never affected! He kept crawling toward spire. Slowly but surely. And finally ... he succeeded! So spectator surprised. They are trying to figure out why this one frog child successfully reached the summit. Jove, it turns out he ... deaf!

In conclusion, if you want a leader who managed to be "deaf". Deaf to negative calls the provocateurs! Once you have good intentions, had a big dream to change themselves and the world around you, focus on foresight, establish himself, his chest, bermunajat beg Allah's help and guard, then ... Step! "... Then when you've made up my mind, then put thy trust in Allah. Truly Allah loves those who put their trust in Him "(Surat Ali 'Imran: 159).

The most classic temptation of the provocateurs were lambasting that our dreams are not realistic. Dreams are not realistic must today, here, for people who do not believe it. In fact, in our lives never really experienced what is called "reality", because what we experience is our perception of reality. If not careful, we call the reality will become more bars blocked ideals. And further, at this point that a true leader to be so different: a faith in a great dream, his sense of certainty, making it capable of achieving what was considered unrealistic by others. In a battle, a companion of the Prophet SAW in the spirit of a raging steed galloping very fast, up-until another friend asked what prompted him to do so. Companions replied, "O my friend, I smell heaven in front of me." Subhanallah! Heaven has become a reality in the gustatory senses (smell) are best friends, became the unquestioned commands, extraordinary explosion of energy that spurred him to attack the enemy to achieve his goal: heaven!

And in the context of our nation, when "reality" shows that the achievement of our athletes continue to slide below zero, even in the event petite SEA Games, while we are increasingly towering achievements of corruption, human development index of our increasingly battered, and a variety of increasingly called storm disaster , leaders who have the competence to learn from the future, or to borrow a phrase Rhenald Kasali, able to re-code itself, is a Necessary condition, abstinence-negotiable precondition for the rise. He is a leader with great vision, "the formation of a new Indonesia that is just, prosperous, and dignified, as well as gifts from God the Creator of the universe."



Learning behavior

And Say: "Work ye, And God and His messenger and the believers will see your work, and you will be returned to (God) who knows the will of the unseen and the real, and He told you what you have doing. " Al-Qur'an, Surat At Taubah (9): 105 -

Operationalization of mental learning is learning behavior (behavioral learning), which should also be embedded in a person to become leader of the fifth level. We depart from the basic belief the potential to become leaders of the five levels had been entrusted of God within each of us. Learning behavior, mental basis of learning, will make every event we experience a trigger, stimulants, for the actualization of this potential. There are basic belief behind it: nothing Happens by chance. Behind every event that we experience there is a message from God for us make a lesson.

One day the Prophet came out of his home to travel. But he has not stepped foot tripped over a rock until severing the rope shoes. Genesis is so simple it makes him stunned and pensive at the edge of the road, "Error what I have done so God decided to warn me with this my shoes rope?" Subhanallah! A remarkable demonstration of the five levels of leadership qualities, leader of the learners. If you pulled out a little, whether the behavior of the leaders of this nation in responding to various calamities that no small: the tsunami in Aceh and Nias, Sidoarjo mud, earthquake, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Poso riots, floods that hit various parts of the country, transportation accidents that never subside , and a large number of other disasters, have shown their qualities as leader learners? Wallahu 'alam. What is clear, Every society gets the leader it deserves, the leader of the nation's only learners learners.

Behavioural learning is a cycle that begins from the Observe, listening behavior (listening) and accumulate all the facts and data, without prejudice. Thus the danger of prejudice, until Allah warns: "O ye who believe, avoid most of suspicion, indeed some suspicion is a sin ..." (Surat Al Hujuraat: 12). Observe the behavior of hearing with a focus on sources of information, involving all the senses, so as to capture nonverbal language and meta-messages, to read Between the lines, no rush to sort, analyze, or concluded. So, the leader of a great listener must learners, that focuses on what is said, not on who is to say, and how the message said.

The next stage is to assess, evaluate, analyze. If Observe answer the question "what?" Then assessed, answer the question "why?". Arriving at this stage of mental develop increasingly clear why learning must precede behavioral learning. Without a solid foundation of mental learning, the question "why?" Only will be triggering the emergence of a series of "black sheep". In contrast, mental learning will make us look in the mirror, find out and then find the area of Improvements in ourselves.

In practice, the high-low quality of assessment depends on the completeness, diversity, and the sharpness of "knife analysis" is used. It is said that there was a story of a tribal chieftain is somewhat underdeveloped in the region of East Malaysia in the period of British colonialism visit to Singapore was invited by the colonial government to conduct a comparative study. During the visit a lot of what he saw: the port, government buildings, highways, markets and other crowded centers. We went home and gathered all members of his tribe he said, "Now I know why Singapore is more advanced than us. It turns out the secret just because they use a cart to transport bertandan-banana bunches at once! "

Why so simple conclusion? Calibaration have calibaration tribe was the staple food is usually allowed bananas grow wild in the forest. Each bunch of bananas are ripe, they haul back with ways shoulders, so that only very few bunches of bananas that they could carry. Now, in his visit to Singapore, the Chieftains are not intentionally look at how people lose bananas from big trucks and brought into the market with a box on wheels who later learned the name of the cart. All the other sights that he saw in Singapore becomes trivial and does not stick in his mind because there is no "hook" like a banana that is connected with the cart. The message of this story would be very clear. The less "banana" as we know, the less meaningful data and facts for us. The basic principle is to say, We see what We Are supposed to see. We see poorly, or not at all, the data does not fit into our current paradigm. We do not know what We do not know. Therefore, do not ever stop looking for "new bananas", so we are getting a quality analysis. This can be understood in the context of the creed that says: "This is the era for the WHO's leaders read." Reading is one surefire way to ensure that we are not fixated on "banana" long.

The third step is to design, designing the most optimal response alternatives. In addition to the quality of data analysis and the fact that done in the previous stage, design quality is also very much determined by the ability to think out-of-the box. Always remember the phrase that says, "only crazy people who expect a different result than in the same way." Principally, we must be consistent with the vision and goals, but never consistent manner. There are many roads to Mecca! However, the quality of design is also inseparable from the ability to think multi-systems (systems thinking), which makes us think a holistic and integrated, considering the relationship interdependence between each factor. When planning to turn a factor we automatically think possible impact, both on other factors, as well as to the overall system, and even to the vision which is to be achieved or the goals to be achieved. So, the leader of the learners are also those who are open minded and multi-system thinking.

There are other stories. This time it was about ten birds that were perched on the fence. They chatted, joked. Unfortunately we do not know what they were saying, because that is their own understanding, the Prophet Sulayman U.S., and Allah SWT. Suddenly the bird tenth saw a worm that was fat and plump out of the ground. Publication of their hunger. Therefore they decided to prey on the worm. The question is: how many birds remain perched on the fence? If your answer is less than ten, the answer was wrong. Yes! The answer is ten! Why? Because the birds just decided. Think again, how often in our lives incessantly weighing, considering, deciding, and then re-weighing, considering, and decided, and again weighed, remembering, deciding, without ever carrying out. Is there a change? No! Many smart people believe that the plan's decision to move the hill would make a hill to slide. They forget that the move tractor hill. Implementation, action, is the last stage that determines the outcome of a cycle of learning behavior. Action, action, action! Failed? Who's afraid?! Remember, Success Truly Is the result of good judgments. Good judgments is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgments. Alfa Thomas Edison said, "I am not discouraged, Because Every wrong attempt Discarded is another step forward." So, just do it!