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 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 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 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 industrialelectric 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** *
 Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest  possible solution that solves the problems.

An ant can be killed in two ways....

#1) By squashing it with your hand....
 #2) By bombarding it with a missile

 *Choose your way!!*