Month: July 2009
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Lateral Thinking – General Motors (Pontiac Division) and Vanilla Ice Cream
A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors ‘This is the second time I have written to you, and I don’t blame you for not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after dinner each night,…
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Lateral Thinking – Money lender and pebbles
Many years ago in a small village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The Moneylender , who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s beautiful daughter. So he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgive the farmer’s debt if he could marry his daughter. Both…
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Focusing on solutions and not problems
Problem 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…
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Insight into Decision Making
A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track. The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. a) You can make the train change its course to the…
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Hi from monica gupta
Today I have got my online unique web identity on https://monicagupta.com/ and It’s such a nice feeling to own a blog for myself. I am not a writer…so expect some informal expression of my views and random thoughts on various topics ranging from day to day life, india , current affairs and life in general.…