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 From: Samreen Hameed

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 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
 
Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution   that solves the problems :-).