DAYAK UNITY, INNOVATION & PROGRESSIVENESS
Written by gkm2020
“The Bottom Line: People are important – No matter their stratum”
Companies that has no heart for the common people
In The Fundamental Religion of the Bottom Line, I asked whether the relentless pressure to drive growth and efficiency could drive humanity from the workplace. I was worried that the absolute focus on the financial bottom line was too brutal, an approach that would turn business into an emotional wasteland.
Companies would become places of darkness, humiliation and intimidation, Nothing Personal – Just Business, workers, could become “collateral damage – resources to be used, exploited and discarded.
Put Our People First
Perhaps I was in a dark place when I wrote this post. In my work and every each day of my life or yours, I or we hear so many stories of dysfunctional workplaces, bullying bosses, corporate and political greed that it is sometimes difficult to remember that there is something so much more important and elevating than business or politic: People.
Every company and/or organization or community, big or small, new or established, successful or failing, is nothing more or less than its people.
How people are led and managed – how they are made to feel about their work – is usually the difference between a great organization and a bad organization.
All People Matter
It was a timely reminder for me or you that all people matter, regardless of their race and/or level in the organization.
Senior executives “the Boss” or “the YB” in particular likes to show that they are important through their offices, dining suites and reserved car-parking places, but, in truth, their absence rarely affects the smooth running of a company and/or organization.
The same cannot be said about office administrators, facilities management staffs, web-masters, receptionists, canteen workers, tea-lady, dispatch riders and cleaners. Without these people, companies and/or organizations soon start to fall apart – yet these are often the very the people who are afforded the least recognition.
People needs each other and so you or me – him or her, what more to say in our Dayak communities today.
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Besatu Kitai Teguh – Bepecah Kitai Labuh”
- Agi Idup Agi Mansang Beradu Kepenemu Ngiga Jalai Baru Bersama Segulai Sejalai Ngatur Pengidup Baru Bangsa Kitai Dayak”
- Nadai Rakyat Nadai Perintah”
- Nadai Undi Nadai YB”
- Nadai Member Nadai Parti”
- “Nadai Pemansang Nadai Pengidup”
- Nadai Kerja Nadai Gaji”
The importance of people skill
People skills will be more important than ever as we already head the uncertainties of 2008 and next year or beyond.
The threat of recession or depression, global credit squeezes, and political uncertainty will magnify the challenges all kind or type businesses will face in the coming.
But without emotional intelligence, clear communication, delegation, feedback, giving recognition and celebrating success, companies/organizations will fail their employees/staffs, their customers/clients, their shareholders and all their other stakeholders.
Ultimately, they will probably fail completely.
Get close to the people
As this comment shows, it’s time to put our people first or our “platoons/battalions” at the grassroots level up to the next level too.
They who feel involved will always perform better. They will be healthier, work harder and stay longer.
It is not only right to do so, but good for business and/or organization in general.
Our Peoples are our greatest asset, strength and capital.
Conclusion
But perhaps the last words should go to all of us, who believes that by remembering we are all in this together, we avoid “successful meaninglessness”, so that, in the words:
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Together and Remain United
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We can all work
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We can all stand tall
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We can progress
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We can prosper
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We can be self-sustaining and
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Live in peace.”
There’s a lot to discuss. I’d love your help in prioritizing our conversations. Please add a comment and let us know about issues you’d like to jump into first. Lets us be united and re-grouped together for our betterment now, tomorrow and our future.
Happy reading and prosper always!
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Inspirational word from gkm2020
To be united, be a Dayak first, and later other Dayak ethnics.
Get a seat for Malam Dayak Borneo on 4Dec at Dewan Suarah.
Do you guys preach what you say? To me this is mere rethoric. Among our Iban community, everyone wants to be the general, Evenyone despises Jabu, Masing, William Mawan, Geramong Guna, Stephhen Rundi. Everyone despises Douglas Uggah, Joseph Salang, Joseph Entulu, and Jelian Mersat. How can the Iban unite if they don’t like their political leaders. So how? Better don’t unite lah. Semua ngelaban lah.
KonyBY, do you share your IP with two other people, otherwise you are using three (3) names. Or else someone is stealing and using your IP. Lock up our computer once not in use. Thanks.
And as for this article, what gkm2020 wrote is an opinion, as much yours is an opinion. Some of the names you mentioned above are my personl friends.
AND how do you know they do not share the same concern that we expressed here? We understand that once in politics, their hands are tied. They have to abide by their party’s line, but it does NOT MEAN they don’t agree with us. Its the people like you that are divisive, okay?
It’s time for you to grow up.
Dayaks should by now realise for themselves that thier very basic rights have been marginalised by others…Even from edcation sector, many young dayaks children in rural areas have stopped schooling and this cause the rural school dropouts keep on increasing annually. This alarming rates of school dropouts amongst the dayaks children have not receive immediate attention of the Dayaks Leaders. They merely say…dayaks children should not simply drop out from school and the education nowadays is the key for better life and so on… I never heard any dayaks leaders keeping saying why this trend are so alarming….what are the root of the problems….?? One of many root of the problems were that there is seldom check from the education department to teachers in rural schools on how effective and how dedicated they devote themselves to teaching lines in rural areas when compares to urban teachers???? Are the progress reports on the developments of teaching and its standard ever checked by higher authorities? I mean Dayaks leaders…Don;t forget almost all education departments in sarawak are monopolised by the Melanaus or Malays left with very few non-core posts be given to Dayaks….so are they really look after the dayaks children in hearts especially in rural areas???? if not, what sort of actions be taken by dayaks leaders to bridge the gaps of school dropouts between the urban and the rurals???
gkm2020, you wrote a very good article on the way forward for the Dayaks. An article that spells the values system that could influence the way of life for the Dayaks, if we Dayaks internalise these values. Kudos gkm2020 for the beautiful insight into way forward for our community.
Personally, I feel proud to know that we Dayaks start to hold on to some common values that will drive us forward. A common value system that do not differentiate our different sub-ethnic groups. A common value system that unites all of us because we all could share common goals.
Personally, I feel sad to see how how we Dayaks keep blaming others on what we don’t have. I feel so helpless to see we focused too much on what others do or don’t do instead of what are we doing for ourselves. I feel helpless because of a nagging question that keeps playing in my mind,’is there something that I can do to make all Dayaks know. Know what? Know that the power to change starts from me, not others’.
Some basic questions that never stop ringing in my mind:
- Is not having education the fault of our community leaders?
- Is losing my NCR land the fault of my community representative?
- Is being poor the fault of my minister(s)?
Some thoughts that won’t go away from my mind:
- what will it be, if I have had put education as the most important priority in my life.
- what will it be, if I have had toiled my land, teamed-up with the businessman, and learned how to make good money from the vast lands that I inherited?
- what will it be, if I have had told myself that I can’t accept myself being poor, so I would knock on the doors of every man I know who is willing to give me jobs.
- what will it be, if I have had worked hard on every opportunities that I had, with discipline as hard as steel, commitment as deep as the ocean, and hungry for knowledge as deep as the bottomless pit.
I know lamenting in self-pity for myself will not get me anywhere. Pitying my community will not change my community. So what can I do?
Can someone enlighten me… what to do?
as long as “buban” still swk cm ..our yb cannot unite.., because this fellow used a very..very dirty tectic ,,it was ” divided and rule”.
So..please all the young people of dayak and non dayak which againts “buban” be awake..and understand..the game .