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What do you do when you face a problem? Do you focus on the problem to get a solution, or do you focus on the solution to get your problem resolved ? Well, you might be confused, but this is the reality where people have 2 different ways to solve their problems.

We found 2 cases where people tried to Focus on problem, but ultimately people who focused on solutions won the battle.

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.

See, How easy it was. Americans focused on Problem of pen not working in Space, where as Russian focused on Solution where they worked on, How to write in Space. Simple, Isn’t it ??

CASE 2:-
One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan ‘s biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox 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 soapbox 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 soapboxes 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 soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Again, Too Simple. the Top Management people Focused on Problem where they were to Eliminate Empty boxes of soap. But an employee Focused on Solution to get this problem solved, and he won.