SOAP

I'm sure you've probably read it before, but a lil reminder wont hurt?


A Japanese soap manufacturing company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a box of soap that was empty.
Management asked its engineer to solve the problem permanently to avoid any reoccurrence.

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 a rank-and-file employee that was posed the same problem came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Clearly, the engineers worked hard, but the rank-and-file employee worked smart.

So what's better than merely working hard? It's working smart. Having a said that, it is still important to work hard. If you could combine both working hard and working smart, you would possess a major factor toward success.

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."