Problems & solutions

*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.*

**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.*

**Moral**
**· Always look for simple solutions.
· Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems.
· Always focus on solutions & not on problems.*

knr

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Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.

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