What are your values? What do you treasure the most? What is your life purpose? Who do you want to be? What are your strengths and weaknesses? If you have the strength to do tasks, you will be happy when doing them. Improve what you are lacking.

Define Your Ideal Career

1. Mindset and mental2. Attitude and authenticity3. Purpose and practice 4. Leadership and loyalty 5. Execution and entrepreneurship

MAPLE Framework

You are the driver of your life and career. Knowing your career goal will help you to know what skills and knowledge are required, find someone who can help you grow your career, and know what would be the top career you can achieve.

4. Works in collaboration. Be able to work with others and the best talents in the world.5. Keep learning. Learn from the best sources and apply what you learned. Update yourself with what has happened globally and actively anticipate what the future brings.

Develop Global Mindset

Prioritize and delegate your work. Think the problems as attractive challenges to conquer. Believe that you are the right person needed by your employer to solve the problem rather than as burdens.

Mindset - Choose

Realising our weaknesses or limitations should not make us afraid to move forward.

Mindset - Can Do

If you're dreaming to be an CEO one day, then imagine how you would look, talk, take decisions, communication style, and lifestyle.

Mindset - Visualize The Dreams

Revolusi mental (mental revolution) was once coined by President Jokowi to drive his government from corrupt mentality to integrity, from rude to polite, from mediocre to excellent, from reckless to disciplined.

Mental - Transform Your Mentality

Arrogance will make people avoid you. Conversely, being humble will make others eager to help you.

Attitude - Humble

Know the cultural differences and behave accordingly. For example, in one culture you may find that answering "How are you?" with "Fine" is already considered as polite while in another culture giving a short answer like that could be considered as impolite.

Attitude - Align With Cultural Differences

Be yourself and show your true colours. You can be successful with your personality traits. For example, don't mimic aleadership style that doesn't suit your personality.

Authenticity

Purpose will give you strength in your hard time. Be passionate about what you do. Don't let your career make you neglect your family. Share your knowledge so others grow from your expertise.

Purpose

Practice hard and correctly. You need grit, the strength to endure for a long time. Practice 10.000 hours to be an expert as Malcolm Gladwell observed.

Practice

5 global mindsets that are relevant to Indonesian talents:1. Self-confidence. Be brave to think big, have big imaginations, and be brave to make it real through actions. People around you will feel your positivity. Brave to be happy and have fun while doing it. Celebrate your achievements.2. High curiosity. Know the essence of all things. Don't stop with the superficial knowledge. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Practice critical thinking.3. Flexibility. Having the ability to adapt to the changing world without compromising your value. Always works with integrity and truth.

<ol><li>Energy. Emit positivity. Embrace positive thinking. Surround yourself with positive thinking people. Practice to view things with correct perspective.</li><li>Energize. Make others feel energized by your presence.</li><li>Edge. Be brave to take decisions even unpopular with measured risks.</li><li>Execute. Prepare entrusted tasks so it goes beyond your leader's expectations. Think it as a chance for you to get a promotion.</li></ol>

Leadership - Jack Welch's 4E

He is the first Indonesian Minister of National Education. About leadership he said that a leader should be in the front to be a role model, in the middle to give guidance, and in the back to support.

Leadership - Ki Hajar Dewantara

<ol><li>Transform your idea into actions.</li><li>Execute thoroughly.</li><li>Execute consistently.</li></ol>

Execution

1. Don't be afraid to fail.2. Don't take criticism personally.3. Don't break when under pressure. No one is free from work pressure.4. Don't give up.

Mental - Don'ts

<ol><li>Take a measured risk.</li><li>Broaden your network. Build trust with the people we are working with. </li><li>Develop intrapreneurship. </li></ol>

Entrepreneurship

<ol><li>Be loyal to your life purpose. You will attract people with similar minded. Successful people has successful people in their circle and they can help influence your life.</li><li>Be loyal to your family. If your career motivation is your family, spend your time with them! </li><li>Be loyal to your profession. Moving to other company after working in a short period (6 months or 1 year) would not give you enough time to deepen your understanding. You might seems to have a wide range experience but it could be shallow.</li></ol>

Loya

How to global-proof your career in the Indonesian context.

Buku ini membahas cara membawa karier Anda dari baik menjadi hebat, sehingga mendapat tempat di panggung dunia. Bagian pertama buku ini berisi simple and powerful framework yang bisa digunakan sebagai strategi untuk sukses, dan bagian kedua berisi profil lima belas narasumber yang sukses di berbagai bidang di tataran global.

Practice

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