The Dude....

Rocking snap ma.... good camerawork too... aint i look hot.. for those of you wondering ya this was taken durng our company's first anniversary where we had a fashion show and we guys also performed some Hill-Songs... hehhe.. twas fun.... i know i know,.... im model material and all u dont have to tell me.. ;)

The Difference Between Focusing on Problems and Focusing on Solutions

Case 1

When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil.

Case 2

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 the entire package! D boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soap box went through the assembly line 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 whoopee 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-rays, etc., but instead 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 soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral

Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems

Kingdom Builders!

Hey All...!
Lets all keep prayin for the Kingdom Builders Conf. happenin in Hubli this week..! =) Keep the whole team in ur prayers...!
And lets all not forget the BIG picture... we're KINGDOM builders...not APC builders or Church builders!!!!! Lets not lose sight of that!!
Have off a great week! ;-)

values are us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The values are done--finally--wow!!! its gonna be AMAZING living these out and i am SO excited! From now, this is who we are! we are PASSIONATE, COMMITED and EXTRAORDINARY!!!! this is fantastic!!
ppl, lets start living these values wholeheartedly!...Let the words PASSIONATE, COMMITED and EXTRAORDINARY become a part of our everyday lingo now. Lets not forget, they are not core team values-they are APC youth/ TNT values...only the guidelines are core guidelines...the values apply to all...so lets get everyone living it!!!!!
Ajitsu--great job on being extraordinary!!!!