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The present topics(e.g. Malaria, Airport) on Goanet are getting....., any
solution until now??? Ok, plz read this first!!

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Focus on Problems vs. Focus on Solutions

1. One of the most memorable case studies 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, 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 soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the
empty boxes out of the line.

2. 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!!!

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....

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hAVE a nICE dAY!!
Seb d'costa



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