DISCOVERY

DOING NOTHING , THEN ....

A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him,

"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?"

The crow answered: "Sure, why not."

So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Management Lesson: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up

JOURNEY

JOURNEY OF 1000 MILES STARTS WITH A SINGLE STEP

VISION

THE SMILE of Mona Lisa, the portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, seems to have been decoded.

A Dutch emotion-recognition programme has determined that her smile is 83 per cent happy, 9 per cent disgusted, 6 per cent fearful and 2 per cent angry.

A Japanese forensics expert has studied her skeletal structure and deduced her voice using this, and claims it was low for a woman. Another researcher analysed the position of her hands folded over her body and declared that she was pregnant.


VISION IS THE ART OF SEEING WHAT

IS INVISIBLE TO OTHERS

EVERY ONE IS A TECHIE

Once , a famous Cosmetics company in JAPAN 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 to do so.

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the Same problem, 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.



KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid

Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problem.

"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"

EVERYONE IS A TECHIE

CHALLENGES KEEP US GOING STRONG

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever.

The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish. If the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh. The Japanese did not like the taste.

To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer.

However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower price. So fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin.

After a little thrashing round, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and dull, but alive. Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference. Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-fish taste. The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish.


How do they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan?

To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks. But now they add a small shark to each tank. The shark eats a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state. The fish are challenged.


Put a shark in your tank and

see how far you can really go!

ENCOURAGEMENT

A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than hours of praise after success