In fact, I am sitting right here in my home with my laptop and I stare at the monitor.  I actually downloaded a bunch of jokes and other information from net. I stare at them everyday to have some inspiration to write a post. It is now 3:00 am and unfortunately nothing coming out from my mind. But the following “Simple” and “Practical” solution attracted me. Please read it and next time help your management with simple and practical solutions…but most probably your simple solution will not be accepted. Instead they spend hours on baseless discussions and finally conclude with time and money consuming decisions. On the contrary, there will be a decision how to “squeeze” the employees to solve the problem.

The importance of keeping it simple and practical: A soap manufacturing company management was investigating a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that was empty. Somehow one soap box went through the assembly line empty. Management asked engineers to solve the problem.

”At a huge cost, the engineers devised an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors, manned by two people, to watch all the soap boxes passing through the line to make sure they were not empty. But a long serving and lowly ranked ‘practical’ employee devised a much simpler solution. He pointed an industrial electric fan at the assembly line. As the soap boxes passed the fan it blew the empty boxes out of the line!”