[dylug] Focus on Solutions

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- Debajit

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Difference between Focus on Problems, and Focus on
Solutions
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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).In order 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 Russians
do.......................................??
The Russians used a Pencil!!!

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One of the most memorable case studies I came across
on Japanese
management was the case of the empty soap box, which
happened in one
of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies. The company
received a
complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box
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 soap box 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 soap
boxes that passed through the line to make sure they
were not empty.
No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but
they spent whoopee
amount to do so.

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company
was posed with
the same problem, 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 soap box passed the fan, it simply
blew the empty
boxes out of the
line.

Moral of the story: KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) i.e.
always look for
simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible
solution that solves
the problem :-)

So, learn to focus on solutions not on problems

"If you look at what you do not have in life, you
don't have anything"
"If you look at what you have in life, you have everything"


		
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