Difference between Focusing on Problems and Focusing on Solutions


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.



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. Moral : Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems



Always Focus on solutions & not on problems
So at the end of the day the thing that really matters is HOW ONE LOOKS INTO THE PROBLEM, mere perceptions can solve the tough probs...

Style of Decision making.........

Each of us tends to have a certain style of decision-making.

Take a glance at the list below, and see where you fit in:

Impulsive – you go for the first choice presented to you.

Fatalistic – if something's meant to happen it will, it's fate.

Compliant – you go along with the crowd or someone else's opinion.

Delaying – you need more time, or you'll think about it later.

Agonizing – you feel overwhelmed, and can't make up your mind.

Balancing – you weigh all the factors, and then go ahead.

Of course, the ideal method is the last, "Balancing."

And a very simple tool to help you do just that is something

called "Benjamin Franklin's Balance Sheet."

And yes, it's something good old Ben came up with to

help himself make decisions. It's very simple.

Simply take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle.

On one side, put the pros for the option you are considering and on the

other, put the cons.
You can then refine it and assign each entry a "weight"

according to importance of +0 to +10 points for the pro side

and -0 to -10 points for the cons, and add them up.

You'll quickly see the benefits of either side, and your decision will then

almost make itself.

So here's to better decision making to set you on the road to success!

Ajax

The word "Ajax" is the latest Buzzword everywhere.

Ajax is a technology that runs in your browser . It uses asynchronous data transfer

between the browser and the webserver , allowing webpages to request small bits of

information from the server instead of whole pages.

It is a Webbrowser tecnology independent of webserver software.


If we start wondering abt What makes Ajax differnt ?

Well , an Ajaz application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of

interacting on the web by introducing - an Ajax engine- between the

user and the server .

Instead of loading a webpage , at the start of the session ,the browser loads an

Ajax engine - wriiten in javascript and usually tucked away in a hidden frame.

This engine is responsible for both rendering the interface the user sees and

communicating with the server on the users behalf.











By the way AJAX stands for : "Asynchronous JavaScript and Xml"


All the new major products launched by GOOGLE use Ajax technology,

Gmail,Google groups, Google Suggests, Google Maps. etc.