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[Jeff McKenna]

I enjoyed this little email so I am forwarding to the monkeys.

-jeff

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    Subject: PLAN B

    Issue 01.

    When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they discovered
    that ballpoint pens would not work without gravity (or zero
    gravity), then the ink would not go down to the surface on which it
    is desired to write.


    Solution A) Solve this problem, it took six years and $ 12 million.
    They developed a pen that worked: zero gravity, upside down,
    underwater, in practically any
    including glass surface and in a range of temperatures ranging from
    below freezing to over 300 degrees Celsius.

    Solution B) And what did the Russians? The Russians used a pencil!


    Issue 02.

    One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was
    the case of the empty soap box, which happened in one of the largest
    cosmetics companies in Japan. The company received a complaint from
    a consumer who bought a soap box and 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 empty for the
    assembly line. The officials asked his engineers to find a
    good and fast solution.

    Solution A) Immediately, the engineers set out to work to devise an
    X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors and handled by two
    people and monitor all soap boxes that pass through the line to make
    sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and fast.


    Solution B) When a common employee in a small company was posed the
    same problem, did not enter into complications of X-rays, robots,
    computers or complicated; instead suggested another solution: He
    bought a strong industrial fan and pointed towards the assembly. He
    turned on the fan, and while each box passed the fan, which were
    empty just flew out of the production line.


    Problem 03.

    A hotel magnate Hindi traveled to a city for a second time a year
    away from his first voyage, at the counter of a star hotel in the
    bottom of the chain, the employee smiles and greets him saying:
    Welcome back sir, Good to see you back in our hotel; greatly
    surprised because despite being such an important person, he likes
    the anonymity and hard the employee would have such a good memory to
    know who was there a year before, wanted to impose the same system
    in its chain of hotels as this simple gesture made him feel good. On
    his return immediately set to work on this issue to their employees
    to find a solution to your request.


    Solution A) The solution was to find the best face recognition
    software, database, special cameras, response time
    in micro seconds, employee training, etc.. Etc. With a cost of
    approximately $ 2.5 million.

    Solution B) magnate chose to travel again and bribe the employee of
    that hotel to reveal the technology applied. The employee does not
    accept any bribes, but humbly told the tycoon as they did, he said:
    "Look, sir, we have an arrangement with the taxi drivers who brought
    him up here, they ask if you have stayed at the hotel to which it is
    bringing, and if yes, then when you leave your luggage at the
    counter here, makes us a sign, and thus earn a dollar. "


    Moral: Do not complicate your work! Conceive the simplest solution
    to the problem. Learn to focus on solutions and not on problems.

    THERE'S ALWAYS A PLAN B.