[Idea #1]Think Simple to Solve Complex Problems.

>Usaha tangga kejayaan, namun usaha khusus menilai pendapat orang lain juga penting dalam memberi peluang '2nd oppinion' & mungkin itu adalah cara bagaimana Allah memberi jawapan kepada persoalan kita.

1. When NASA began launching astronauts into

space, they found out that the astronauts' pens wouldn't work at zero
gravity (ink wouldn't flow down to the writing surface). It took them
one decade and $12 million to solve this problem. They developed a
pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on
practically any surface including crystal, and at temperatures ranging
from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

And what did the Russians do? The Russians used a pencil.


2. One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management
techniques was the case of the empty soap box, which occurred 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 of time and money 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 the 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.


3. A 50 feet long trailer having 48" wheels got stuck while entering a
midtown tunnel in New York because it was approximately 2.5 feet
taller than the height of the tunnel. The fire department and the
state department of transportation spent the whole day searching for a
solution, to no avail.

Then a child, aged about 9 years, asked his father, "Why can't they
take out the air from the tyre tubes? The height will automatically
come down."


Moral: Always look for simple solutions. And learn to focus on
solutions, not on problems.

If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything.
If you look at what you have in life, you have everything.