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Kaká dan Strategi Kompensasi Karyawan
Salah satu tawaran yang paling hangat diberitakan adalah tawaran Manchester City untuk membeli Kaká, bintang AC Milan dari Brazil, dengan nilai transfer lebih dari 100 juta poundsterling! Sebagai catatan, rekor transfer tertinggi di dunia sampai saat ini masih dipegang oleh Zinedine Zidane, saat Zidane dibeli dari Juventus ke Real Madrid seharga 46 juta poundsterling.
Kaká sendiri, dikabarkan diiming-imingi oleh Manchester City 10 juta pound sebagai signing-on fee, dan gaji sebesar 15 juta pound setahun. Hal mana yang akan membawa Kaká sebagai pesepakbola dengan gaji tertinggi di dunia dengan gaji lebih dari 280.000 pound per minggu (sekitar 4,7 milyar rupiah!). Sekedar info, sebelum ditawar oleh Manchester City, gaji Kaká sudah merupakan salah satu gaji tertinggi di dunia, yakni sebesar 166.000 pound per minggu. Apabila ia menerima tawaran Manchester City, berarti Kaká akan menerima kenaikan gaji sebesar 84%!
“Hanya orang gila saja yang menolak tawaran sebesar itu”, demikian mungkin gumam Anda.
Resensi Buku ‘Harus Bisa!’: Kepemimpinan ala SBY
Cover Buku Harus Bisa!
Saya adalah penggemar buku-buku yang bertemakan kepemimpinan. Selama ini buku-buku dari Jack Welch, Bill Gates sampai Tiger Woods dan Jose Mourinho sudah banyak saya baca. Tapi jujur saja, saya sudah lamat tidak membaca buku biografi kepemimpinan dari orang Indonesia. Kalau saya tidak salah ingat, mungkin buku yang terakhir adalah buku otobiografi mantan Presiden Soeharto di saat saya masih SMP (kalau tidak salah bukunya berjudul “Soeharto, Bapak Pembangunan”. Tidak banyak yang saya ingat dari buku tersebut, kecuali cover bukunya yang dilukis secara brilyan oleh Basoeki Abdullah. Namun seingat saya, buku tersebut banyak dikomentari oleh orang sebagai buku “promosi Pak Harto”, atau “buku propaganda”. Saat itu saya masih terlalu kecil untuk dapat memahami arti hal tersebut, tapi yang jelas buku tersebut sempat menarik minat saya karena banyak cerita dan foto-foto liputan kegiatan Pak Presiden yang membuat saya mengagumi sosok beliau.
Hal yang sama saya rasakan saat pertama melihat buku ‘Harus Bisa!’ karangan asisten Presiden SBY, Dino Patti Djalal, di Gramedia beberapa waktu yang lalu. Saat saya membolak balik beberapa halaman, saya terkesan dengan suatu foto yang begitu indah, foto saat helikopter Presiden SBY beranjak dari Pasema, Jayawijaya, Papua. Foto ini menarik minat saya untuk membaca secara singkat tulisan yang datang bersamanya. Gaya penulisan yang berbentuk cerita dan penuh fakta-fakta menarik dan foto-foto yang eksklusif membuat saya memutuskan untuk membeli buku ini. Read the rest of this entry »
The Secret Life of Footballer-by David Bentley
Addiction is one of the pitfalls of being a footballer. It stems from being so focused on the game – in order to be good at what we do we have to be obsessed with it. Also, we have a lot of free time. The best thing that’s happened to footballers is DVD box sets. Watch those in the afternoons and they’ll keep your mind occupied. Although once I get started on one I’ll be up until 4am just to finish the set.
The craziest thing about football and celebrity is the whole PR machine that’s grown up around it. PR agencies are constantly churning out images of footballers looking glamorous on red carpets – people begin to believe that’s actually how you live your life. It’s a complete illusion.
Some people plan it all. Their PRs tell the papers which club they’re going to, or which shops their missus can be seen walking out of. It’s part of a whole lifestyle. People like Jodie Marsh and Danielle Lloyd are driven by it – they crave being photographed. I know there are people who could arrange things for my missus if she wanted to raise her profile.
A footballer could go out every night of the week and never get photographed if he wanted to. But because so many of them choose to go to certain clubs where the paparazzi camp out, they end up in the papers. It’s never going to happen if you go for a quiet pint at your local, is it?
People say I’m the new David Beckham. I don’t mind that at all, it’s nice being compared to a legend. I grew up watching him and admiring him, and I still do. He’s better looking than me, though. Much. You can actually lose yourself thinking about what a good-looking guy he is. And he’s even better close up. My missus says I’m more rugged, whatever that means.
With all of that going on you need strong leadership from your manager to keep you focused. My gaffer at Blackburn [Mark Hughes] gives me that. He won’t try to be your friend, having a laugh and a joke. He doesn’t want to sit down for coffee. He and Mr Capello are my favourite kind of manager: disciplined. You give a player an inch and they’ll take a mile, that’s just the way young rich footballers are. We need managers to rein us in. It’s a bit like when you’re at school – if you have a strict teacher, you respect them; if you have a teacher that’s always larking about, you lark about yourself. We need to be kept on a leash, otherwise we lose our focus.
Anything different and the team stops winning. I’ve seen it happen. You look at the clubs that are struggling in the Premier League and it’s always for those same reasons. Players have to be controlled, if they’re not it’s a disaster. Look at Newcastle (damn! he’s talking about my team! LOL).
Under the guidance of Mr Capello I can see things going only one way. With him we could win the World Cup. If it was solely down to individual talent we would already be the best team in the world, we just need to learn to play together and we will do well. I’d put money on it, if I gambled.
