This may sound funny but in could be applied in reality.
Simple
Solutions for Complex Problems
The Difference between FOCUSING on
PROBLEMS and FOCUSING on SOLUTIONS
Case # 1 : When NASA began
the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens would
not work at zero gravity (ink will not flow down to the writing
surface).
Solution # 1 : To solve this problem, it took them one
decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero
gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including
crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300
degrees C.
Solution # 2 : And what did the Russians do...?? They
used a pencil. (hahahahaha...a really cheap solution and an evidence that MAYBEEEEE.....Russians are brighter than AMERICANS....erm, Malaysians should learn from Russians!!)
Case # 2 : One of the most memorable case studies
on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened
in one of Japan 's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a
complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty.
Immediately
the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly Line, which
transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department.
For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty.
Management
asked its engineers to solve the problem.
Solution # 1 :
Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with
high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes
that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No
doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee
amount to do so.
Solution # 2 : But when a rank-and-file employee
in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into
complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another
solution.
He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed
it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox
passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.
LOL....AND ALL OF US THINK THE HIGHER THE EDUCATION, THE BRIGHTER ONE WILL BE, NOPE...EXPERIENCE IN LIFE TEACHES MORE!!!!
Moral
·
Always look for simple solutions.
· Devise the simplest possible
solution that solves the problems.
· Always focus on solutions &
not on problems
*KUDOS TO SKANDAL.BLOGSPOT
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