Dear Friends,

Beberapa waktu yang lalu, pada sebuah  "group millis", saya dan beberapa teman terlibat perbincangan hangat mengenai manfaat dan  kerugian merokok, baik untuk diri kita sendiri dan lingkungan sekitar kita.  Ada yang menarik dari diskusi tersebut, saat salah satu teman saya mengajak kita untuk berpikir "diluar kotak yang biasa", thinking out of box! Hanya saja saya agak ragu dengan pemikirian tsb. Jangan-jangan saat kita sudah berfikir bahwa kita sudah berpikir "diluar kotak", ternyata kita malah masuk "kedalam kotak" yang lain, jadi sepertinya diluar "kotak tsb", ada "kotak lain", dan diluranya ada kotak lagi yang terus berlapis-lapis.....paradoks kah ini???

Berikut artikel bagus (juga kiriman dari teman, red), mengenai  "thinking out of box"....selamat membaca:

Rgds

Aan

Talk about Thinking out of the box...

If your company, Comb manufacturers assigned you to sell the
comb to the monks in the temples? Can you do it?

What is your answer?
a) No way... Impossible
b) Crazy
c) I will give it a try in order to follow my boss instruction
d) Well, I will try.
e) Ya, I think I can sell ??? (5pcs? 10pcs? 50pcs? or more...you name it)
Pick an answer above and read below to find out if you are/you are going
to be a successful person or not at all .

The Story: SELLING COMB TO THE MONKS
There was one company "manufacturing combs" which intends to expand
its business and so the management wanted to employ a new Sales Manager.

The company ADVERTISED the vacancy in the newspaper . They are so many
peoples turned up for the interview everyday....accumulated to almost a
hundred peoples in just few days...

The Company now having the problem to choose the right candidate for this
position . So, The Company interviewer had set A Difficult Task to whom who
want to come for final interview.

The Task Is To : Selling Comb To Monks In Temples
Only 3 Applicants willing to stay on for this Final Interview challenge. (Mr A ,
Mr B , Mr C)
The Chief Interviewer instructed: "Now I want three of you here to sell these
wooden combs to the monks in the temples. You only have 10 days to do it
and report to me after that ."

After 10 days, they reported .
The Chief Interviewer asked Mr A: How many have you sold?
Mr A Answered: Only One.
The Chief Interviewer Asked: How did you manage to sell?
Mr A Answered: The monks in the temples scolded me when I show them the
comb . But on my way back to downhill I met a young monk who bought it to
scratch his head due to dandruff".

The Chief Interviewer then asked Mr B: How many did you sell?
Mr B replied: 10 pieces. I went to a shrine and noticed many devotees's hair
was in bad shape due to strong wind outside the shrine. The monk in there
listened to my advice and bought 10 combs for their devotees in showing
respect to the Buddha statue.

Then, The Chief Interviewer asked Mr C: How about you?
Mr C replied: 1,000 units.
The Chief Interviewer and the other 2 interviews were astounded.
He asked: How you did that?
Mr C replied: I went to a famous temple. After observing for few days I
discovered that there were many tourists. I then told the Chief Abbot there.
"Sifu, those who come here are much devoted. If you could give them a gift,
it will be more elating to them. I told him that I have a bulk of combs here
and ask him to raft his handwriting on the combs as a present to those visit
here.  He was very delighted and straight away ordered 1,000 pieces."

The End of Story.

MORAL OF THE STORY
HARVARD UNIVERSITY had done a research that says :-
1) 85% of success is due to attitude  and 15% is capability
2) Attitude is more important than intelligence, specials skills and luck .
In another word , professional knowledge only constitutes for 15% of success
of a person and 85% is due to self-cultivation, public relation and adaptability
ability .
Still remember the story of Selling Shoes to African ? When 2 Salesmen were
sent to that continent, one of them reported: Can not do it. No one wears shoes
there?  The second salesman said: It is good to market . A lot of opportunity .

Success and Failure is dependant on how we face problems.