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 wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface).
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.
And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil.
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.
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.
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.
Moral : Always look for simple solutions.
Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems
Always Focus on solutions & not on problems
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Friday, November 24, 2006
Fw: Great case study - Always Focus on solutions & not on problems
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
The Philosophy of Stock Market....... too Good
Stock market simplified......!!!!
Once upon a time, in a village a man appeared who announced to the
villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs. 10. The villagers seeing
that
there were many monkeys went out in the forest and started catching
them.
The man bought thousands at 10 and as supply started to diminish and
villagers started to stop their effort he announced that now he would
buy
at 20 rupees. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started
catching mon keys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and
people
started going back to their farms.
The offer rate increased to 25 and the supply of monkeys became so that
it
was an effort to even see a monkey let alone catch it.
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at 50! However, since he
had to go to the city on some business his assistant would now buy on
behalf of the man.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all
these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell
them
to you at 35 and when the man comes back, you can sell it to him for 50.
The villager squeezed up with all their saving to buy the monkeys.
Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!
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Monday, July 31, 2006
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