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[23 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 80 views]
Mind Your Language

There were these 4 guys, a Russian, a German, an American and a French, who found this small genie bottle. When they rubbed the bottle, a genie appears.
 Thankful that the 4 guys had released him out of the bottle, he said, “Next to you all are 4 swimming pools, I will give each of you a wish. When you run towards the pool and jump, you shout what you want the pool of water to become, and then your wish will come true.”
The French wanted to start. He ran towards …

Management, lateral thinking »

[12 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 74 views]
Management lesson Series-part ii

Never ever jump to conclusion without knowing facts. The amazing video video below explains why…

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[7 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 73 views]
Management lesson Series-part i

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up  her shower when the doorbell rings. After a few seconds of arguing over which one should go and answer the doorbell, the wife gives up, quickly wraps herself up in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor.
Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $ 800 just to drop that towel that you have on”. After thinking for a
moment, the woman drops her towel …

lateral thinking »

[23 Jul 2009 | No Comment | 401 views]
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, but the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we’ve eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. …

human resources »

[16 Jul 2009 | No Comment | 56 views]
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 any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.
Solution
And what did the Russians do…?
They used a pencil .
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Problem
One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was …

human resources »

[14 Jul 2009 | No Comment | 116 views]
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 disused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed.
b) Or would you rather let the train go its way?
Let’s take a …