DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FOCUSING

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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.
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 .
So at the end of the day the thing that really matters is "HOW ONE LOOKS INTO THE PROBLEM"



Wrong Number
"Hello?"
"Hi honey, this is Daddy...is your Mummy near the
phone?"
"No Daddy, she's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle
Frank,"
After a brief pause Daddy says,
"But you haven't got an Uncle Frank, honey!"
"Oh Yes I do, and he's upstairs in the bedroom with
Mummy, right now!"
"Uh Okay then......here's what I want you do. Put
down the phone, run upstairs and knock on the bedroom door and shout to
Mommy and Uncle Frank that Daddy's car just pulled up outside the house."
"Okay Daddy!"
A few minutes later the little girl comes back to the
phone.
Well I did what you said, Daddy."
"And what happened?" he asks.
"Well, Mammy got all scared, jumped out of bed with
no clothes on and ran around screaming, then she tripped over the rug and
went flying out the front window and now she's all dead."
"Oh my God!!!!! And what about your Uncle Frank?"
"He jumped out of bed with no clothes on too and he
was all scared and he jumped out the back window into the swimming
pool..... but he must have forgot that last week you took out all the
water to clean it, so he hit the bottom of the swimming pool and now he's
all real dead too."
*** long pause ***
Then Daddy says, "Swimming pool????
Is this 555-7039?
"No! This is 555-7093" the little girl said.
"Oooooppppssss....sorry wrong number