Friday, September 24, 2004

It's Happen !?

"What's happen?" I have no idea why we always say the same words when we saw someone in bad. Just for squabbling, I think why not we say "It's happen!" instead of "What's happen?", it sounds like more active and more expectably to what will happen in the near future.

I had taken a course of "System Simulation" at colleage, it provides a mechanism to set up a virtual world to imitate the real situation of cases/systems we want to know, we could gather the detailed information concerning the problem happen in the cases/system by running the specific software programs. We can intend to make a different allocation of resources, and watch what will happen in the cases/systems. Finally, we can make a choice of resources allocation to acquire a better performance of the cases/systems. It remind me that we can predict what will happen, if we grasp the key input factors and the operating pattern of cases/systems, the goal of "It's happen!" won't be faraway.

Win or Lose

We all care about the survival of ourselves and make efforts to be the champion in any contest, since Darwin advocated the theory of evolution. Maybe it's nature of human being, but Darwin theory consolidates the tendncy to compete for one's own future. Luckily, if we want to win, we should cooperate with another person to expel another opponent alliance, it's also made by human nature. Therefore, we won't be alone in the world.

When we talk aout the contests in our life, we always take the award as the symbol of champion. We expect the job promotion, the raise of salary and bonus, and acceptance of our argument in our daily life, we hope the such things will secure our position against invaders. Truely, it's the superficiality we could own and show off. I think that a man with deep thought won't agree with us and our behavior, because the award we acquire isn't the whole of our daily life. For example, if you get married, you have a quarrel with your mate, and your opinion dominate the conclusion. I suppose your mate won't be happy to face it, you hurt your relationship between you and your mate. If it happen regularly, yes, you win the victory, but you will lose your marriage.

I have a friend, named Skywalker, his authority isn't accepted by his fellow. One day, his fellow had thrown down the gauntlet infront of him, because of his correcting the bungle matters made by the fellow. It's a difficult thing for Skywalker to admit of such a instance, but he never use the power of management to discipline him. Latterly Skywalker is on the initiative in his department to appeal to top manager for helping the fellow to handle his mother's funeral. It's a abnormal thing for people to understand. Skywalker told me that he just do the right things on his position, and he won't be the one he despise before. As my opinion, I think that Skywalker's fellow won't be informed that he had done for his mother's funeral. The reason why Skywalker to help his fellow is that he want to win his own heart, and being the decent person. It's far beyond from the thought of "WIN or LOSE".

So, I think that
1.To win the contest and acquire the award is easy to be stimulated, and encourage people to join the contest, but it's hard to win the heart of your contender. Maybe you are the champion in the contest, but you initiate many people to against you.
2.How to cooperate with your competitor is the key to win the contest and the way to secure your position, not the smashing of your competitor.
3.To help your opposition party won't be the source of falure of your career, it's the way to win yourself, both superficiality and the essence.

To Be, or not to Be.

The moment of truth is existing at the mement we try to make a choice, while we face to our beating heart for being ourselves or not. We get used to be ourselves and act like the way we always to do, it's not so easy to change our behavior pattern to be the strange one our ego never know. The sun comes up in the east, ans so there is nothing exception for we always trapped into the scotoma according our own wishful thinking.

The one I know before, when someone asked him to correct the mistake he made in public, he always went purple with rage, even threaten his fellow/supervisor to give up the task he was assigned. It caused his fellow to avoid to say the facts to him, and he never knew what the weakness and inappropriate things he superinduced. I think he is look like a adult, but he is a child in mental maturity, he is innocent, not sophisticated. As a worker, I think we won't be willing to be treated as a child in the office.

We never know how to avoid the stupid things reaptly happen in our life, but what we could do is try to understand the context of accident as clearly as possible. If we could find the scotoma of ourselves, then we could hold the directions of drive without disturbing by our impetuous heart, and we could never angry at our fellow for causing troubles on the cooperation.

"To be, or not to be", the aphorism will guide us to face the heart of ourselves. What the superego we formulate, what the achievement we will attain.

Net Friend - the friend you make on the net

Being a member of Yahoo! Personals in Taiwan for monthes, I am couriuos how the lucky person to find his/her true love and get married. As my personal experience, I think the virtual space should be the extention of real world. If you are a excellent person with nice-looking, you will find your soulmate both in the real world and on the net. If you are not good enough, even poor, on your external conditions, you still can't find your mate, even if you are on the net, unless you cheat your net friends. Internet make everything easy to be compared among many candidates, Yahoo! Personals make people get together to be screened, if you want to. People will be commodities waiting buyer to pick up from shelf of member list.

The coming situations are:
1.The one who own high negotiation power will be difficult to find his/her mate, because he/she will be busy to screen hundreds of applicants, and hard to choose the one he/she like from so many candidates.
2.The one who named loser by the assessment will not be choosen to be someone's net friend, because he/she hasn't the oppertunity to show his/her endogenous excellence and morality.
3.Everyone enjoy to be the shopper on the supermarket in his/her imagination, but the true is they are the commodities on the shelfs.
4.There is a kind of people treat the Yahoo! Personal as his/her arena, he/she is acting his/her show.
5.If you are lukcy to establish the channel of communication with your net friends, how to cultivate the trust between you and your net friend will be the most important thing to make you go to church.
6.Yahoo! Personals will be a endless soaper, if people still hope to be the protagonist in the life show.

Monday, September 20, 2004

Drifting downstream or Making a way upstream

"A style of arrangement influences the level of achievement, and one's point of view manifest the direction of result." It is a slogan from an advertisement in Taiwan, but deeply impressed in my heart. Like construction of building, the design map prescribe the altitude and appearance of the building, and the people who in charge with the process of construction will affect the schedule and the quality of the construction.

If you are the leader of a project team, the definition of project scope and the staff arrangement is the key to attain higher achievement. If you are the member of the team, your reception to the task-related things will influence the accomplishment of tasks. How to align the values between the leader and the member will be the key successful factor for the project. Most of the leaders will hope his colleagues make effort toward to the acomplishment of tasks, in the contrast, most of the member will hope his supervisor identify himself/herself with him. The upper level care about the performance, and the lower level care about the identification. Everything will be ok, if resources are aboundant. Otherwise, how to make a balance between the performance and identification test the trust between the leader and the member.

To be a effective leader is not a difficult thing, only if he stress his member enough and he will get what he want. But being a good member isn't a easy thing, we shoud held back our negative feeling and try to make thing work. As a team member like us, we could choose to drift downstream or making a way upstream, since God give us the free will. I think God and the project leader will watch what we will to be.