Volume 22 No. 49
December 25, 2015

what the world needs now is love
(excerpt)
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some but for everyone
21 natural highs
1.  Laughing so hard that your face hurts.
2.  No lines at the supermarket, bank or post office.
3.  Taking a drive on a pretty road.
4.  Hearing your favorite song on the radio.
5.  Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.
6.  Hot towels fresh out of the dryer.
7.  A good conversation.
8.  Lying on a warm, sunny beach.
9.  Finding a 20 dollar bill in your coat from last winter.
10. Sharing a sunset with someone special.
11. Running through sprinklers.
12. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.
13. Friends.
14. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.
15. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.
16. Playing with a new puppy.
17. Having someone play with your hair.
18. Swinging on swings.
19. Making chocolate chip cookies.
20. Holding hands with someone you care about.
21. Knowing you've done the right thing, no matter what other people think.
kiss
One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soap box, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies.  The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box 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 soap box went through the assembly 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 soap boxes 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 whopping 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-ray, etc., but instead came out with another solution.  He bought a strong industrial fan and pointed it at the assembly line.  He switched the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes off the line.
 
Moral
Always look for simple solutions.  Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems.




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