Senin, 27 April 2015

Ini khasiat menakjubkan dari buah aprikot!

Reporter : Destriyana | Senin, 27 April 2015 04:18

Ini khasiat menakjubkan dari buah aprikot!

Ilustrasi aprikot. ©shutterstock.com/Valentyn Volkov

Merdeka.com - Buah aprikot mengandung banyak vitamin dan nutrisi, yang bisa memberikan banyak manfaat untuk kesehatan tubuh. Aprikot adalah buah asli China, namun itu juga mudah ditemukan di Indonesia. Buah ini dapat memenuhi berbagai kebutuhan gizi yang Anda butuhkan setiap hari. Mau tahu apa saja? Berikut adalah beberapa khasiat buah aprikot bagi tubuh, seperti dilansir Livestrong.

1. Vitamin A (Retinol)

Aprikot adalah sumber vitamin A yang juga dikenal sebagai retinol. Senyawa yang larut dalam lemak itu dapat membantu meningkatkan penglihatan dan perkembangan janin yang sehat. Kandungan vitamin A dalam buah ini juga dapat mendukung sistem kekebalan tubuh, serta menjaga kulit dan selaput lendir tetap sehat.

2. Serat

Aprikot adalah sumber serat yang baik bagi tubuh. Serat dibutuhkan oleh tubuh untuk mendukung fungsi usus dan membantu mengurangi tekanan darah.

3. Vitamin C

Vitamin C, juga dikenal sebagai asam askorbat, merupakan salah satu vitamin yang ditemukan dalam aprikot. Vitamin ini merupakan antioksidan dan dapat membantu melindungi sel-sel dari kerusakan yang disebabkan oleh radikal bebas, yang pada akhirnya dapat mengurangi risiko kanker dan penyakit lainnya.

Vitamin ini juga dapat membantu mengurangi risiko penyakit jantung, tekanan darah tinggi, osteoarthritis, degenerasi makula yang terkait usia dan flu biasa. Karena vitamin ini sensitif terhadap cahaya, udara dan panas, makan aprikot segar akan memberi Anda lebih banyak nutrisi ketimbang aprikot kering.

4. Kalium

Kalium adalah mineral yang dibutuhkan oleh setiap sel, jaringan dan organ dalam tubuh untuk bisa berfungsi dengan baik. Mineral ini banyak ditemukan dalam aprikot. Senyawa ini juga diperlukan untuk menjaga fungsi jantung dan kontraksi otot. Kalium juga berperan penting dalam pembentukan tulang, menurunkan tekanan darah dan mengurangi risiko stroke.

Inilah empat khasiat buah aprikot bagi tubuh. Semoga bermanfaat!

Minggu, 26 April 2015

Ayo bantu jakarta mengatasi kemacetan, dengan mengirimkan ide kita

Peneliti muda ditantang atasi macet Jakarta berhadiah Rp 129,5 juta

Reporter : Sri Wiyanti | Senin, 27 April 2015 12:20

Peneliti muda ditantang atasi macet Jakarta berhadiah Rp 129,5 juta

Merdeka.com - Jakarta merupakan salah satu kota terpadat di dunia. Bank Dunia menyebut Jakarta sebagai salah satu megakota dunia dengan lebih dari 10 juta penduduk. Diprediksikan akan ada 16 juta penduduk yang akan tinggal di Jakarta pada tahun 2020.

Menurut Jakarta Globe, kota ini telah mengalami pertumbuhan jumlah kendaraan sebesar 11 persen per tahun, sementara pertumbuhan jalan raya kurang dari 4 persen per tahun. Keadaan ini juga menyebabkan Jakarta menyandang predikat kota dengan polusi terparah dibanding 14 kota metropolis Indonesia lainnya, berdasarkan survei Kementerian Lingkungan dan Kehutanan tahun 2014.

Di waktu yang sama, Jakarta juga menempati urutan terbawah dari 50 kota dalam Indeks Keamanan Kota yang dikeluarkan Economist Intelligence Unit index. Dengan berkembangnya populasi Jakarta, tantangan ini diprediksi akan bertambah parah jika tidak ditangani.

"Sistem lalu lintas Jakarta merupakan tantangan besar dan perlu penanganan cepat mengingat jumlah populasi yang terus meningkat," kata Direktur Eksekutif New Cities Foundation, Mathieu Lefevre dalam siaran pers yang diterima merdeka.com, Senin (27/4).

Didasari oleh kondisi tersebut, New Cities Foundation dan Connect4Climate mengajak para inovator Indonesia untuk memberikan solusi permasalahan mobilitas dan kemacetan Jakarta, menyusul diadakannya New Cities Summit, yang akan membawa diskusi global mengenai isu perkotaan pada tanggal 9-11 Juni di Jakarta.

Pada tanggal tersebut, Jakarta akan kedatangan 800 pemimpin perkotaan dan para peneliti dari berbagai sektor untuk berdiskusi mengenai masa depan perkotaan dalam New Cities Summit, yang diselenggarakan tiap tahun oleh New Cities Foundation.

"Dengan diselenggarakannya Jakarta Urban Challenge sebelum diadakannya New Cities Summit di bulan Juni, kami berharap hal ini dapat memberikan sebuah fondasi awal bagi Jakarta untuk menghasilkan inovasi-inovasi terbaik bagi masalah mobilitas Jakarta. Kami mengajak generasi muda Indonesia untuk memanfaatkan kesempatan ini dan bergabung dengan kami untuk menciptakan Jakarta yang lebih baik. Segera daftarkan ide Anda sekarang," imbuh Lefevre.

Untuk menciptakan dampak yang lebih besar dari konferensi ini, New Cities Summit bekerjasama dengan Connect4Climate mengatasi masalah yang dihadapi Jakarta. Connect4Climate merupakan komunitas global yang peduli untuk mengatasi isu perubahan iklim, diluncurkan oleh World Bank dan Kementerian Lingkungan Italia.

Kompetisi ini terbuka untuk pelajar dan pengusah Indonesia berusia antara 18-35 tahun, baik individu maupun kelompok dengan maksimal lima orang anggota.

Program Manager Connect4Climate, Lucia Grenna menambahkan, masa depan kota ini ditentukan oleh generasi muda. "Connect4Climate ingin memastikan bahwa para pengusaha dan inovator muda bisa menyuarakan pendapat mereka mengenai masa depan Jakarta. Jakarta Urban Challenge merupakan kesempatan yang sangat baik bagi mereka untuk menyumbangkan solusi dan berbagi visi yang mampu memberikan dampak positif di seluruh aspek kehidupan sebuah kota," ujarnya.

Pendaftaran peserta harus diajukan sebelum batas akhir pendaftaran tanggal 8 Mei. Aplikasi ini harus ditulis dalam Bahasa Inggris dan menjelaskan visi dan misi dari proyek pendaftar. Untuk informasi lebih lanjut mengenai pendaftaran, silakan mengunjungi http://bit.ly/JKTUrbChallenge

Detil mengenai juri internasional akan diumumkan dalam waktu singkat. Untuk informasi lebih lanjut mengenai Jakarta Urban Challenge silakan kunjungi www.newcitiesfoundation.org - Twitter: #JKTUrbnChallenge.

Jakarta Urban Challenge mencari ide proyek paling inovatif yang mampu melakukan hal-hal sebagai berikut:

Memperbaiki kepadatan lalu lintas

Mengurangi emisi GHG

Mengurangi polusi udara

Meningkatkan keamanan dan aksesibilitas

Dalam rangka mendorong lebih banyak ide menarik, New Cities Foundation dan Connect4Climate memperpanjang batas akhir penerimaan aplikasi pendaftaran ke tanggal 8 Mei 2015.

Ketiga finalis ini akan mempresentasikan ide proyek mereka di hadapan audiens global pada New Cities Summit di Jakarta. Juri internasional akan menilai presentasi tersebut untuk kemudian memutuskan pemenangnya. Pemenang pertama akan mendapatkan USD 10.000, sementara pemenang kedua dan ketiga masing-masing akan mendapatkan USD 6.000 dan USD 4.000.

Jakarta Urban Challenge: Proses Aplikasi

Saat ini: Pendaftaran melalui http://bit.ly/JKTUrbChallenge

8 Mei: Penutupan pendaftaran; seleksi oleh New Cities Foundation dan Connect4Climate

May 26: Pengumuman pemenang

June 9: Presentasi tiga finalis di New Cities Summit

June 10: Pengumuman pemenang di New Cities Summit

Kamis, 23 April 2015

The Secret to Combining Happiness and Success

24 Apr 2015

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Success implies getting more of the good things in life, which people think of as more money, a larger house, finer things to put in the house, and so on. But assuming that these will make you happy is shaky. The world's wisdom traditions warn that following the demands of the ego personality, with its narrow focus on "I, me, and mine," won't lead to happiness. The field of positive psychology generally agrees--after a certain point, once finances are reasonably comfortable, more money and the things it buys don't make people happier.

It's no simple matter to combine success and happiness, in fact, but the world's wisdom traditions do offer a strategy. They recommend leading a conscious life. The long-term goal of the conscious lifestyle is inner growth, gong beyond the selfishness of the ego-personality to reach higher values like love, compassion, selflessness, and empathy. The problem is that these worthy goals are easily postponed while attending to the short-term goals associated with success.

Plenty of driven, ambitious, competitive people devote their prime years to getting ahead, letting happiness more or less take care of itself. Such a sharp focus on external achievement contradicts the conscious lifestyle. One is outer-directed, the other inner-directed. To have any hope of being adopted, the conscious lifestyle must bring short-term rewards also. Rarely is this pointed out, still more rarely does anyone carry through.

The common link is consciousness itself. I argue that expanded awareness improves both halves of existence, inner and outer. If you look deeper into the world's wisdom traditions, there isn't a division between the two. The world "out there" reflects the world "in here," and in both domains your level of awareness determines how your life turns out--not just one compartment of life but its entirety. As you move out of constricted awareness, which its built-in insecurity, anxiety, and narrow perspective, it's only natural that success and happiness will be joined. The one won't be achieved at the cost of the other.

We all know people who cannot exist without their work and who devote everything to career and achievement. Society praises and rewards such people, but society doesn't reveal the disorganized, empty lives that high achievers often have or their higher risk for stress and the damage it causes over time. Quite often, even when constricted awareness makes it look as if everything is going your way, your path through life is like a train in the night, seeing the track ahead through a single headlight. What lies to the left or right is unseen, and there's no hope of jumping the rails.

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I realize that religion has traditionally made the material world an enemy of spiritual advancement. All our customary notions about the spiritual need for renunciation, poverty, and humility are, in my view, too limited and perhaps wrong. It doesn't matter if you choose to be worldly or not. What matters is the following:

- Do you enjoy a fresh stream of new solutions and insights?

- Are you in touch with who you really are, which is beyond the roles you play?

- Can you see a situation past your own point of view?

- Can you empathize with others and genuinely feel where they are coming from?

- Do you feel connected to a reality larger than yourself?

- Can you see the underlying purpose and value of your existence?

- Are you following a vision of life that can sustain you for years to come?

To answer "yes" to these questions doesn't make you a saint - it makes you someone who has seriously walked the path of expanded awareness. Each of these things I've listed are of immense value to an innovator, entrepreneur, manager, or CEO. Awareness isn't a rubber band, but it needs to be stretched. This can't be done by force; nor can you rely on life lessons as you struggle to the top. Success ultimately depends on who you are, not what you do.

Which is why the world's wisdom traditions speak about the need for transformation. At this moment, what does your life consist of? At bottom, it consists of input and output. You find yourself responding to a given situation — the input — and you do, think, or say something — the output. For the vast majority of people, the output is automatic, reflexive, and mostly unconscious. I'm not saying this to demean anyone. It's a spiritual axiom that everyone is doing the best they can from their own level of consciousness.

If you are asked to cook a soufflé, the result will be different depending on your level of culinary skill. The same holds true for thinking, speaking, and doing. They all reflect your level of skill, although "skill" is too limited a term. Awareness is all-embracing. It includes everything you are and all that you have experienced. But the beauty of the human mind extends much further, because your awareness also embraces everything you have never thought or said or done, all the hidden possibilities that need to be awakened before you really discover who you are.

This domain of hidden potential is the richest reward of expanded awareness. When you consider that Henry Ford started out as an apprentice machinist and went on to run a failed automobile start-up company after his investors lost faith in him, his immense success later running the world's largest car company depended on a vision that kept expanding, sustaining him despite external twists of fate. Failure turns into opportunity exactly this way, by incorporating the setback into your awareness, processing it unflinchingly, and emerging with a bigger vision.

If that sounds too idealistic, consider the poison dart hidden in worldliness, or attachment to external success and failure as the sole measure of achievement. In that scheme, losing makes your awareness contract. Every loss of money, power, and status is like a loss of self. Awareness can be expanded in many ways. The most important are these:

Meditation
Silent reflection and contemplation.
Communing with Nature
Seeking higher guidance.
Associating with admired people who serve as mentors and models.
Studying the great saints, sages, and seers.
Identifying with your inner self and not your external achievements.
Living by a higher vision of life, and of who you are.
Placing importance on our own inner growth and spending time on it.
Keeping up with the most far-seeing thinkers in your field.
Being open to change, not fearing the unknown.
Being comfortable with uncertainty and the rewards it offers.

It's not important to label any of these things as spiritual. They are derived from the knowledge of consciousness that wisdom traditions have cultivated for centuries. Even in our own materialistic times, where success and failure have apparently become a matter of life and death, if you actually encounter someone who has risen to notable success, sit down and ask them their secret. One way or another, you will find evidence of expanded awareness, even if that's not a phrase they use. Even better, consider the things that lead to expanded awareness and test them out for yourself. The potential rewards are limitless.

Deepak Chopra, MD is the author of more than 80 books with twenty-two New York Times bestsellers. He serves as the founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing. His latest book is The 13th Disciple: A Spiritual Adventure.

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To Succeed, Don't Just Plan—Plan Right

23 Apr 2015

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Whenever I think about the subject of planning, a quote from Benjamin Franklin always pops into my mind: “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” Successful people, and successful businesses, all know how important planning is. But in a world of accelerating technology-driven change, what kind of planning are you doing? From a results perspective, there are basically two types of plans, and it’s important to be able to distinguish between the two in theory as well as practice.

First, there’s incremental planning. This is the type of planning most large and small companies do. Growth is forecasted to rise in a rational and incremental way. Innovation is focused around logical extensions of current product and service offerings. There is an ongoing focus on reducing costs by implementing new lean strategies and there is a heightened focus on being agile so businesses can react more quickly to changes in the marketplace.

A good incremental planner might work best in situations where routine and regularity reign, where everyone knows what to expect and when to expect it based on their past experience. Incremental planners see the future as full of uncertainty and disruption that can come out of nowhere. Staying focused on executing the current plan is key even if the plan is being rendered increasingly irrelevant by new technology and industry disruption.

Organizations don’t think of or call their planning incremental, but in reality, that is what most planning is designed to accomplish — incremental results.

Over the decades, shareholders have learned to expect incremental plans and therefore incremental results. But today, incremental planning and thinking will not position you to thrive in the years ahead, and will likely position you to either stay slightly ahead of flat results, or fall behind a little more every year. Today, it’s very easy to fail slowly like Kodak, Polaroid, Motorola, and many others did throughout the 1990s — or like Sony, Blackberry, Barnes and Noble, and others have done more recently. All of them used incremental planning and thinking, and yet all fell behind as the forces of predictable change worked against them.

It’s now time to consider a new type of planning, transformational planning — which requires an entirely different mindset.

Transformational planning, as the name suggests, is focused on using the forces of change that are shaping the future to drive innovation and accelerated sales. A transformational planner understands that we are now living in a period of unprecedented disruption and opportunity. They understand that reacting and responding to change will not allow them to rapidly accelerate growth. They also understand that while being agile is important and a great way to respond faster to changes coming from the outside in, agility will not allow them to jump ahead. In addition, they know that while it is important to have a lean initiative in place, lean is focused on cost reduction, not accelerated growth and gaining a new competitive advantage.

Before the launch of the Apple Watch, many in the media using incremental thinking predicted a flop. Apple, on the other hand, was using transformational planning, and in all of 2014 there were 720,000 smart watches sold — but on the first day, Apple sold over a million smart watches, and that was only in the U.S.

I know what you are thinking: Apple is big and has plenty of cash; we are small and there is never enough cash; we can’t do transformational thinking and planning. You are wrong!

Transformational planning involves developing and using the new competency of being anticipatory. By identifying and seizing upon the predictable Hard Trends thatwill impact your business and industry, you can design a plan to jump ahead with the confidence that certainty offers, and with much lower risk. (I have written extensively about how to separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen, so in this article I will only cover a few basics and instead keep the focus more on the different ways to think and plan.)

The key to transformational planning, in essence, is using the Hard Trends methodology to make the future more visible, learning to recognize the Future Facts, and choosing to be the disrupter rather than waiting to be disrupted.

You can either sit back and wait until the disruption hits — take a “wait-and-see” approach — or you can get active, what I call being pre-active, taking positive action based on future known events.

Disruption changes our world and keeps its many leaders up at night. For many, disruption is a familiar foe. But realize that disruptive technology will only disrupt youif you didn’t know about it ahead of time. When you’re anticipatory, you’re creating changes and driving disruption from within rather than being disrupted from the outside. And when you’re practicing transformational planning, you can not only see and accurately anticipate those disruptive technologies, but you can use them to create new revenue streams, new products, new services, and new markets. That’s when you drive growth and change from the inside out so others have to react to you instead of you reacting to what others are doing. In this scenario, disruption is your competitive advantage.

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DANIEL BURRUS is considered one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and innovation experts, and is the founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients understand how technological, social and business forces are converging to create enormous untapped opportunities. He is the author of six books including The New York Times best seller Flash Foresight.

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Jack Welch Says Only Two Words Matter for Leaders Today: Truth and Trust

21 Apr 2015

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No living person is more closely linked with the concept of business leadership than Jack Welch. Even for those who have never put a foot on the corporate ladder, who couldn’t tell Six Sigma from Six Flags, Welch’s name is instantly recognizable. During his time as CEO of GE — a two-decade span that started in 1981 — he took it from a $14 billion company that was thought of mostly as fine but lumbering to a $500 billion one that was fast, full of talent and willing to take risks (though GE is now unwinding some of those big bets).

Fourteen years later, Welch's business lessons are still followed and debated: That management has to ruthlessly weed out mediocre employees (“not removing [the] bottom 10% early in their careers is not only a management failure, but…a form of cruelty,” he declared in one annual report); that if you’re not No. 1 or No. 2 in your industry there’s no point in being in it; that problems can be solved in rank-defying, public "work outs" vs closed-door, hierarchical meetings. His LinkedIn posts, co-written with his wife, former HBR editor Suzy Welch, almost always become instant hits. What they write about is what professionals are wrestling with every day: How to get better, how to move faster, how to stay relevant.

One way? Skip the traditional MBA.

A few weeks ago, Jack and Suzy came by our offices in NYC to talk about their latest book, The Real-Life MBA. After Welch left GE, he taught at MIT’s Sloan School and recognized some of the same problems he’d seen in business: inefficiency, lack of customer-focus and a lack of speed. He teamed up with for-profit education company Strayer to launch his own school, the Jack Welch Management Institute, and declared that business principles would rule. They’d go for reaching a lot of people not a few elites; teacher success was evaluated on NPS, not the number of scholarly articles published; what he taught needed to be applicable not theoretical. The book is another way of bringing even more scale at even less cost.

“I am not in any way in this book, or in this school, downgrading the traditional MBA,” he said to me — before doing exactly that. “You graduate, you go to work for four to five years, you quit work, you give up your $100,000-a-year job, you go back to school, you spend $65,000 for two years, each year. You've got $330,000 out-of-pocket costs. " His plan? "The book costs $25 to get a piece of it, and the school costs $40,000 to get all the practical aspects of it. It's a different model.”

Welch didn't want or need any preparation for our talk. True to his belief that candid feedback is the best kind, he was most animated when being pressed on some of his declarations. He folded his black-sneakered feet underneath him, leaned forward and in his Boston accent, defended himself and explained the future.

The only thing he wouldn't talk about? NBC or anything GE related. "I'm not going to comment on GE no matter how you come at this question," he said, laughing. "I've never been back to the office there. The day I walked out, I have never been back. It's gone. It was another life."

What good is it to look back when the world is changing so fast?

Some highlights from the interview:

On why he got into education:

Education is a less-than-competitive field. Cost continues to go up, and it's moving away from most people. We're doing it in a professional business way, where the student is the customer, not the faculty.

On how much faster business is today than when he was at GE:

In my first days in GE ... people were preparing the budget starting in July for the big show and tell in December. By that time today, the world is upside down. [For instance,] oil and currency in six months have flipped upside down.

If you can't move, you're dead.

On the dangers of becoming a big company:

You're a big company. You have massive investments, tons of people. You've got plans that, even though you make strategy sessions all the time, you have to know what's going on, you have to be able to change. Big companies can't change quickly. Every big company's gotta be a small company in their head. You want the muscle of a big company, and the soul of a small company. I fought for that every day. I never got all the way there, but I fought for it every day.

On how people inside big companies have to act:

You want people to think every day about speed.

So you think about things like layers. If I'm a middle manager, how tough am I making it for you to get things done? Have I got a system where I can get action because of you? Or am I a pain in the ass with layers in there, making you get approval checking on somebody else? “What do you think Dan'll think about this?” No. I want you to be spontaneous, I want you at me.

On why constant appraisals are the way to get that kind of employee:

You always want your people to know where they stand. See, one of the things about appraisals for people, appraisals shouldn't be every year. The world changed in a year, they've changed in a year. You've got to let them know, "Here's what you're doing right, here's what you can do to improve." And you've got to be on them all the time.

Leadership today is all about two words: It's all about truth and trust. You've got to have their back when they didn't hit it out of the park, you've got have their back when they hit it out of the park.

When they trust you, you'll get truth. And if you get truth, you get speed. If you get speed, you're going to act. That's how it works.

On the simple way to lead:

You've got a conference room right down across the hall there. People walk into your conference room. You're the boss. They're spinning you. They're giving you a flavor that might sell. If a neon light was flashing at that room, "Truth only! Truth only!" think how much faster you'd be. You wouldn't have to go through the, "What do they really mean? What?" But that only comes from trust.

That's why all these leadership books and stuff about leadership, it's all crap.