Sunday, July 3, 2011

Lift.....mirror......

I am reading onEdward de Bono's Teach Yourself to Think. Edward de Bono.

As I am reading about lateral thinking, there is one wonderful example used to show the lateral thinking in solving issues, and the example is related to the lift.

"There is a well-known story told in books on operations research about a building in which people complained about the slowness of the lifts.  The engineering solution was going to be very expensive.  The cheap solution to was to put mirrors around the entrances to the lifts.  People now spent so much time looking at themselves and others in the mirrors that no one complained any more."

WOW!
STUMBLED!

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