in related to :

Corporation, Business (corporation), and

Ecosystem

Robert Manurung
Biotechnology Research Center ITB
manurung@biotech.itb.ac.id, r_manurung@hotmail.com
 Triangle of Success

Technical competence
◦ Success in tackling technical problems
◦ Ability in problem synthesis :
- In facile application of learned theory
- In the organization of technical matter
- In oral and writing expression
Opportunity
(Luck)

Personality Motivation
 Personality

• Ability to deal
• Sensitive to their attitude and problems
• To emphasize
• Awareness to ecosystem
 Motivation
• Dedicated to the job
• Desire to perform well characterized by :
- enthusiasm
- drive
- willingness to tackle new challenging
situation
- to accept the reality of competition
ENTHUSIASM
FOCUS
INNOVATIVE
RELIABLE
TEAMWORK
 IMPORTANCE OF THINKING
• “Thought is the key to knowledge, knowledge is
discovered by thinking, analyzed by thinking,
organized by thinking, transformed by thinking,
assessed by thinking and most importantly,
acquired by thinking” (Richard Paul)

• “Thinking is hardest work, which is the probable

reason why so few engage in it” (Henry Ford)

• “There is nothing either good or bad, but

thinking makes it so” (William Shakespeare)
 A Model of Learning
and Human Performance
 Specific Types of Thinking

Comparison and Inference and

Contrast Interpretation

Analysis Metacognition Evaluation

Generating Possibilities
Generating Possibilities

What do we do when we
generating possibilities?

 Generate many possibilities

 Generate different types of possibilities
 Generate novel possibilities
 Analysis
What do we do when analyse?

 Identify the relationship of the parts to

a whole in system/structure/model
 Identify the function of each part
 Identify the consequences to the whole,
if a part was missing
 Identify what collections of parts from
important sub-system of the whole
 Identify if and how certain parts have
a synergetic effect
Comparison and Contrast

What do we do when we
compare and contrast?

 Identify what is similar between things –

objects/options/ideas, etc
 Identify and consider what is important
about both the similarities and
differences
 Identify a range of situations when the
different features are applicable
Inference and Interpretation
What do we do when we
make inferences and
interpretations?

 Make meaning of information/data

available
 Identify causal relationship
 Identify key points and emphasis
 Make predictions concerning future
possibilities
 Separate fact from opinion
 Identify intentions and assumptions
 Evaluation

What do we do when
we evaluate?

 Decide on what is to be evaluated

 Identify appropriate criteria from which
evaluation can be made
 Apply the criteria and make decision
 Metacognition
What are we doing when
we are metacognitive?

 Aware that we are thinking in a planned

manner
 Actively thinking about the ways in
which we are thinking
 Monitoring and evaluating how effective
we are thinking
 Seeking to make more effective use of
the different ways of thinking and any
supporting learning/thinking strategies/
tools
“Thus, the task is, not so much to see what
no one has yet seen; but to think what
nobody has yet thought, about that which
everyone sees.”

Erwin Schrodinger (1887 - 1961)

If you want to understand function, study
structure.

Francis H.C. Crick (1916-);

co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA
TRIANGLE OF SUCCESS IN
BUSINESS (CORPORATION)
PERSPECTIVE
 WHAT IS CORPORATION ?
An ingenious device for A mechanism established to allow
obtaining individual profit different parties to accumulate
without individual or capital, expertise, and labor for the
responsibility. maximum benefit for all of them.
Ambrose Bierce
Monks and Minow
BALANCING

Defining Characteristic
Limited liability for members. Influence Factors
Free transferability of investor interest. •ENVIRONMENT
Legal personality. •PROCESS
Potential immortality. •PROCEDURES
Centralized management.

IIA International Conference 2005

IIA Chicago, July 11th – July 16th 2005
Being In Business
Is Not About Making Money,
It Is A Way To Become
Who You Are
(Paul Hawken)
Managing Only for Profit
Is Like Playing Tennis
With Your Eye
On The Scoreboard
And Not On The Ball
Do What You Love –
The Money Will Follow
(Heart at Work)

Work is Love Made Visible

(Kahlil Gibran)

Research and Development for Humanity

 Development

Seeing the unseen,

thinking of the unthinkable
doing things that have not been done
to create value or benefit for the society at large
 Which Development?

 Development as a job
 Development as a career
 Development as a calling
 What Does It Need Thus
Development Has Business Values?

• Intelectual capital
• Social Capital
• Ethical Capital
• Passion, Persistent, Commitment,
Motivation
 Increase ‘Flow’,
Not Only Enlarge Knowledge ‘Stock’

F =mxa
Where :
F = knowledge value
m = knowledge stock
a = knowledge flow
A Winner seeks for the goodness in a bad man,
and work with his part of him.
A loser looks only for the badness in a good
man and therefore finds it hard to work with
anyone.
Sydney Harris
“Success is a journey, not a
destination.”
Ben Sweetland
TRIANGLE OF SUCCESS
AND ECOSYSTEM
1m
1825 2m
1930 3m ?
1960 4m 7m
5m 6m
1977
1989
1999
2007
SELF DEVELOPMENT
• SELF ACCELERATION
• IN SYSTEM
• COMPETING
• NETWORKING
• CLEAN HEART
 TAKE A ROLE AND
KNOW OTHER’S ROLE
• Heaven for spouse
• Heaven for neighbors
• Heaven for friends
• Taking care and maintaining facilities
• Being grateful for life and living place
SELF AWARENESS

Achiever
Never ask for the best
But make the best everything he got
RESOURCE LEARNER

Traveler
Continuous Learning
ENROLLER

Reliable Peer
Reliable,
Efficient,
Responsive,
Knowledgeable.
RESPECT OTHERS “THE BEAUTY OF LIFE
DOES NOT DEPEND
ON HOW HAPPY YOU ARE
BUT ON
HOW HAPPY OTHERS
BECAUSE OF YOU”.

Value Adder
Proactive,
End in mind,
Prioritizing,
Win-win approach,
Und-2B-Understood,
Synergize,
Habit-7.
NETWORKING

Communicator
I’m save for you.
I’m pleasant for you.
I’m useful for you.
 Be more concerned with your
character than with your reputation,
because character is what you really
are while reputation is merely what
others think you are.

John Wooden, coach, UCLA Bruin

Thank you!