On
a Saturday morning, a very casual exchange on social media on solving a simple
puzzle turned out to be a good learning..
Here
you go: The puzzle was move just ONE match to fix the equation..
In
a minute or two, someone posted a solution 8 - 4 = 4.
I
knew we have more answers than one.. Kept pushing friends.. I got more
answers....
5 + 4 = 9;
0 + 4 = 0;
and
one answer with "out of box thinking" came :
5 + 4 ≠ 4 (You may be thinking who are these people : you are right, of course,
from engineers)
May
be there are more answers ! But the following lessons are learnt :
a.
Solutions will come when you look at the problem, not just as problem, but work
to find the solution
DEVELOP
the attitude of SOLUTION ORIENTATION
b.
You will have more solutions when you collaborate with your team
To find more solutions and better
solutions, COLLABORATE
c.
Every solution is correct and each one is right for his or her solution
See the OTHER PERSPECTIVE
At
the end, the important one, every PROBLEM has SOLUTION(s).
Your thoughts & reflections on this in new age scenario. 