We can also learn to become the entrepreneur of the other Ancient Arabic, namely The Qataban. In addition to the kingdom of Saba and Minea, other important kingdoms that appear in this region is Qataban. Qataban country living in the valley Baihan east of Aden, which is now in the vicinity of Hadramaut.
Qataban kingdom built with the natural environment, climate, social and economic development similar to the kingdom Minea, Saba and Hadramaut. Archaeological expedition has found a number of sites that show Minea that, Saba ', Hadramaut and Qataban have any similarity in their stage of development in all aspects. Like other South Arabian kingdom triggered by a great wealth from trade incense (frankincense) and myrrh at the altar of burnt. In the third century BC (BCE) and the second century BC, Qataban reach peak prosperity. Qataban defray the expenses to make more laws, regulations and legal and more menertibkan matters related to trade and markets.
Tamna is Qataban capital and is the greatest city in the Wadi Baihan located between Shabwa and Ma'rib. Timna city located on the trade route that passed by Minea kingdoms, Saba ', Aksum, and Hadramaut. Tamna left edge is in the Wadi Baihan deserts on the outskirts. A place which is 30 km from Tamna is very popular since the fourth century BC .. The place is a center discharge the caravan trade that passed and the kingdom of incense Qataban collect taxes from the caravan as rewarded for their safety. Caravan trade incense after preparing goods dagangannya in Tamna, and the camel to the final goal, namely Gaza, located in the Mediterranean coast., Travel distance of 2380 km. 65 caravan through central dismissal, where the camels to rest temporarily.
Archaeological expedition has found the ancient relic as the two bronze lions, the monument includes legal persons and buildings Qataban channel water from the rock and cement material such as cement waterproof. Channel that is left over from the aft Baihan bees throughout the 25 km estimated fifth since aban BC. Monument of the Qataban is Mablaqah route, which is the way that be chiselled in stone mountain valley that connects Baihan and Hareeb through the valley of Mount Mablaqah an approximately 380 m above sea level, approximately 4.8 km long with a dangerous slope and width of the road between 3.5 meters to 4.5 meters. Mablaqah mountain road is a meeting point and the various routes of frankincense, myrrh and ollibanum. Of the old city is the other person Qataban Hajar Bin Hameed which is located on the hill menjorong at a height of approximately 21 meters from the valley in Bifurcate a distance of 15 km to the south is also Tamna and ancient trade routes. City have built between 1100 BC to 900 BC.
The head of the god who is Qataban AMM or "uncle" and call himself Qataban "AMM children." Qataban Kingdom for some time under the authority of the kingdom of Saba and Minea. The Arab historians did not know the slightest bengsa-nation-that any posts from Arabic writings spread north up to Ethiopia, the spice trade, and establish public buildings are incredible. Qataban leaders also mukarrib title or a holder of power as well as a pastor. Mukarrib this lead Qataban several centuries. Around fifth century mukarrib called Yadiah Dhubyan South Bridge has build Timna.
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The Entrepeneur term introduced by economic experts from Austria named Joseph Schumpeter in the years 1883-1950. Entrepeneur means someone who is always looking for a change. Entrepeneur considers the changes as the norm or something that's good. Usually Entrepeneur make changes to things that already exist or have been found previously. But there is also a success Entrepeneur because he discoveries something new. Entrepeneur always looking for changes, respond it and utilize the opportunity and do it creatively and innovatively. Businessmen are the changes made in the production process so that can appear and disappear in a process in the overall management of a company.
Meanwhile, to be smart Entrepreneur, we should be able to create new business, creative and innovative with the risk of failure and benefit that would not be gain or even losses. But the smart Entrepreneurs should be looking for external opportunities and threats that can be overcome with knowing the internal strengths and weaknesses.
It is smart Entrepreneurs should be able to use the ability of right brain and left brain optimally, the right brain as a source of creative and innovative thinking and left brain as a source of logic, and carefully calculated. Also, the use of intuition and the information intelligently . Intuition is the ability to know things without conscious.
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Entrepreneurs is someone who is always making changes and innovations. Innovation in improve the system or something exist and create new systems or discoveries something new. Entrepreneurs are the best way to face of global crisis and the rapid growth of the world's population. But why so many people do not dare to make changes?
Because change things have a very high risk, the results are not certain and have a high risk of failure. Because many people think that a Entrepreneurs have already started their talent and intuition since birth. Someone who wants to innovate means that people must be out of the Comfort Zone . In fact all people can learn the ability to make changes.
Here are some tips to reduce the failure risk in making innovation :
1. Note human aspect to make changes. Most agencies more consider the technical aspects, financial and operational to make changes. The reality is the human factor as a factor that has the art and intuition in facing external changes are often ignored because they assume that the human factors is only needed to create ideas, not on the process of change.
2. Plan changes well. Many people think that the changes is abstractly and spontaneously. But actually, the changes will be good changes that done gradually and planned. By analyzing the internal and external factors, the changes that are made more precise and direction.
3. Changes often failed because they failed to build coalitions or strong support. They should be wiped vision and goals before making an innovation so at the time that the changes have been made, there are no parties who feel aggrieved and eventually do something to impede the process.
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The number one base of business are designing and maintaining the clear and focus strategy. But what is strategy ? According to Jack Trout in his book "Trout on Strategy", the cores of strategy are survive, perception, being different, competition, specialization, simplicity, leadership and reality.
Good strategy is how to survive in the competitive situation. The real winning of the company in a competition is winning the communication competition. The example is positioning strategy in marketing positioning in a change of the advertisement, including the changes of name, price, package and cover. Not a changes of all side of product. Positioning is a something that you do for your customers mind, to place the product into your candidate of customers. The best approach for the public or your candidate of customer is through a simple message.
Good strategy is being different, be the first, be a leader and dominating the attribute, event and production process. It is too late if we want to follow the leader and being the second.
The core of strategy is a competition. Recognize your competitors, avoid their strengths and exploited their weakness. Even we need a spy to check our competitor and listen the idea of our staff in the field.
It is better to be excellent in one segment than good at all segment. Tell your customers that you are a specialist. Because the customer want a best service in just what they needed. Being a specialist impresses that we are an expert and it can produce a faith of the customers.
The core of strategy is a leadership. No one will follow you if you yourself don't know where to make a step. Akio Morita leads Sony to find a new market opportunity called " Pioneer Spirit ". Sony is a pineer and never thinks to follow the other. They crate handycam, first home video recorder and floppy disk. Their most famous discovery is Morita's ideas about walkman.
Reality is the core of strategy. The core is market reality . Even the chairman can't do all things but have to pay attention in market reality. How to dominate a market ? The answer is Positioning. The First Rule of Positioning is " It is better to be the first than to be the better "
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a business concept is difficult in the era of strategic resources (Strategic Resources), which consists of core competency, assets and the strategic core. Strategic resources are specific and unique that can change dramatically resource competition to be a source of business concept innovation.
Toy R Us store
Competence is a superior something that is owned company and is able to provide skills and a unique ability. Interstate Department Store in the beginning and would eventually see the company is essentially competency, which is selling toys. Finally, the company changed its name to Toys "R" Us. Currently the company is controlled 17% of toy retail business in the United States. The main question on the competency of this core competency is what we have? What we know about the unique, valuable for consumers and can be transferred to create new opportunities? What benefits depth that can satisfy the consumers? How do these advantages make for new ways to compete? What kind of difference can be made to the core competencies to the market in different industries? Is there a core competency that we provide comprehensive solutions to the consumer? Competence what we want to add in the concept of our business? Ebay is one of the companies that use the core competencies with 5P, namely Product, Price, Promotion, Placement and Performance
Competence eBay
Asset-strategic assets and skills is not a superiority that is unique, but something that relates to the company, for example, company name, brands, patents, infrastrtur, property standards, consumer data, and all the things that is very rare and valuable. The use of one of these assets rar create a business concept innovation. Barnes & Noble is the company's success, rival Amazon.com, as the use strategic assets. Barnes & Noble has a strategic asset
form strategic location of the store and knowledgeable. But Barnes & Noble can provide comfortable sofas and chairs in the space between the row of books and open bar-bar drinks in the store and places that can be used for the discussion of books, reading stories, poetry and music resital.
Book Store Barnes & Noble and the broad strategic
Barnes & Noble to become the destination of fun and luxurious, not just a book store, but is central to the community that comfortable meeting.
Divorce place in the Barnes & Nobles
Place in the discussions Barnes & Noble
The key question is whether the asset strategy that we have? Can we exploit in a new way to provide new value to consumers? Can we have a strategy asset value in the rules that other industries? Can we create a new business model with exploit our strategic assets?
The process is the core of what made the company, which includes the methodology and routines used to change the input into output. This process incorporate the core competencies and strategic assets, and input into something of value for consumers. The discovery of a fundamental re-core process can make the basic concept of business innovation. Questions concerning the core nucleus of this process is whether the most critical in our company? Whether that process can create the highest value for consumers and competition in a unique scene that tight? With speed like what we develop the process? Bisakan we imagine a process that is new that is more valuable for consumers? Is there an opportunity to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the process we?
Value is the guidelines to act or behave that comes from in themselves. In the form of the principles of how to live and make decisions.
Value, the first time are introduced by their parents in infancy and then added by teachers, religious belief, of association and the environment. Spiritual values, when this is the foundation of individual behavior is very important. Why it is important to know the value of an individual? Although this does not have a direct impact on behavior, values with a strong influence attitudes one. So the knowledge of the value system of an individual can give insight into the attitudes-attitudes.
With edge-known that the value of different people, managers can use the Rokeach Values Survey, the share value into two groups, namely the value of the instrument and the value of goals that can be used to assess the potential employee and whether the set of values they segaris with the dominant values of organization. Performance and satisfaction an employee will most likely be more mengaggap very important, imagery, clack bergantungan, and freedom will most likely be poor value conformity with an organization that organize the compliance of its employees. The manager will be more likely mengahargai, with a positive rate, and distributing benefits to employees in accordance with the organization, and employees will be more likely event if they perceive that they are appropriate. This is the defense of the management strive for the selection of new employees to find candidates who not only have the ability, experience and motivation, but also a system of values appropriate (compatible) with the value system of organization.
The manager should be interested in the attitudes employees because of their attitude to provide warning of potential problems and because attitudes affect behavior. Karyawanyang pride in and commitment to, for example, have come out and the level of absenteeism is lower. If managers want to stop the application and decreased attendance - especially among their employees productive - they will want to do things that will generate a positive working attitude, so write Stephen Robbins in organizational Behavior.
The company is guided by the value of proven success in the long term. Grameen Bank is a company that values with the vision of the world without poverty. Grameen Bank founded by Muhammad Yunus has only one purpose, namely to distribute credit for the poor in Bangladesh.
Values that put Muhammad Yunus to the employee or the staff to make Grameen Bank grew rapidly. First groups to help mothers are poor bamboo craftsman, has now helped 46,000 villages in Bangladesh. Moreover, if the business is guided by the value of worship to God, then the business will gain the most. "God loves those who easily in the sale, purchase, repayment and billing. He who gives to the people of the suspension of the (to pay the debt) or lead to, then God will menghisabnya with penghisaban the light. Whoever receives the purchase back from those who deplore purchase, cancel, Allah (remove) admitted on the Day of Resurrection. " saying Rasulullah SAW
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Many complained that to open a business opportunity is not there. This is a classic complaint that can not be with us again. Indeed, to start a business we can do with a variety of ways, one with the education that we have. Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo start a business with education. They are students from Stanford University. Yahoo started from the back parking lots is now growing rapidly. Jerry Yang and David Filo started the business from small and simple. Jerry Yang describes the discovery that Yahoo is "an accident" when he and Filo tesisnya complete. Filo and that this launch Yahoo when they sit in the universities, before they complete studies. They start doing business with the listing several web sites that they like and write some software that allows a website to get other web sites that will be placed on a web portal called. At the time established in 1994, named Terry's Guide To The World Wide Web. When they know that their sites visited by people from 90 countries, spontaneously say "Yahoo" and finally the words that are used to name their company. In 1999, Yahoo reach star status. Net income in quadruplicate fourth quarter of 57.6 million dollars, while revenue jump from 91 million dollars into 201 million dollars. Now, Yahoo is a portal to the best of 2002
Pierre Omidyar started the business with a degree in computer science. He was interested in developing the technology for different products and consumers love the idea that he can take the concept with all the way through the delivery of products to consumers, and their reaction shows and changing them. Internet gives you a place to do it, because you can publish software quickly, you can get a reaction from your customers quickly and Andapun do know if the error quickly. He thinks, how the auction in Paris of participants do not go to Paris, but in their homes or offices in each. Finally Omidyar founded on the Internet auction company with the name eBay in 1995. Before Omidyar founded eBay with i establish eSharp, which provide experience as Entrepreneurs. eBay is a company that relies on trust. Imagine! People want to pay what dilelangkan with only see an image only. Without trust this company will not run. Net income more than three times reached 1.35 million dollars in the third quarter of 1999, with sales increased to 58.5 million dollars. The amount of that conduct registration on the site eBay increased from 5.6 million to be 7.7 million compared with the previous quarter and increased 1.3 million dollars in the same period the previous year. Penjulan value of the goods on the web site jump from 195 million dollars into 741 million dollars. eBay auction is the best company in the Internet in 2002, the magazine version of Yahoo.
About what makes you great. What separates you and I made history as Entrepreneurs "said Anita Roddick. With the history of his love of the environment eventually make the concept of "natural", to make herb-pure ingredients, do not test on animals and friendly to the environment and indigenous population, where the herb-derived ingredients. With almost no advertising at all but with the publicity that is very passive, The Body Shop has become one of the legends of the world.
Ir. Ciputra start a business with the education field of architecture and properties, because it of Architecture faculty alumni ITB 1960. Ciputra now as the President Director of PT Ciputra Development (CD) and President Commissioner of PT Jaya Realty (JR) and the CEO off the public's best 1997 version Sembada Swa magazine.
My education after completing a Master of Arts Management with friends established the Masters of Business Administration, in cooperation with the West Coast of the Institute of Management and Technology, Australia and Warnbrough University, the United Kingdom before any regulations on the MBA program. Once the rules are and then establish a Master of Arts Management Program at STIE "Artha body Iswara" Surabaya. Currently, students Magister Management Program is about 1000 students, perhaps the Master's Program Management that the number of students in Indonesia. So you can start your business with education, and when the course.
