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Focus on Problem Vs. Focus on Solution
2008/05/25 01:51
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Japan's largest cosmetics company received complaints from customers about empty soap boxes. To prevent this from happening again on the production line, engineers worked "hard and diligently" to invent an X-ray monitor to inspect every soap box before shipment. The same problem occurred at a smaller company, and their solution was to purchase a powerful industrial fan to blow away any empty soap boxes.
NASA discovered that astronauts couldn't write with ink pens in the low-temperature, zero-gravity conditions of outer space. After ten years of research and billions of dollars, the Americans developed a pen that could write in such conditions. In contrast, the Soviets simply used pencils to solve the same problem.