A little story about innovation, urgently needed 5

1. The story of Lu Ban's invention of the saw.

Legend has it that one year, Luban accepted a task to build a huge palace. The palace needed a lot of wood, so he and his apprentices had to go up the mountain to chop wood with axes, and there were no saws at that time, which was very inefficient. Once, when he was going up the mountain, because he was careless, he inadvertently grabbed a handful of wild grass growing on the mountain, but he cut his hand at once.

Lu Ban is very strange, why is a piece of grass so sharp? So he plucked a leaf and looked closely, and found that there were many small teeth on both sides of the leaf, and when he touched it lightly with his hand, these small teeth were very sharp. He understood, his hand had been cut by these tiny teeth.

Later, Lu Ban saw a big locust gnawing on a grass plant, and the two big teeth were very sharp, opening and closing, and soon ate a large piece. This also aroused Lu Ban's curiosity, he grabbed a locust, carefully observed the structure of the locust's teeth, and found that the locust's two large teeth were also lined with many small teeth, and it was on these small teeth that the locust relied on to bite off the blades of grass. These two things inspired Lu Ban a lot.

So he used the big bamboo to make a bamboo piece with many small serrations, and then went to the small tree to do the experiment, the result was really good, a few strokes of the tree pole to draw a deep ditch, Lu Ban was very happy. However, because the bamboo piece is relatively soft and the strength is relatively poor, it cannot be used for a long time, and after pulling for a while, some of the small sawtooth is broken, and some become dull, and the bamboo piece needs to be replaced. Luban thought of the iron piece and asked the blacksmith to help make the iron piece with small serrations.

Lu Ban and his apprentice each pulled one end and pulled it up on a tree, only to see them go back and forth, and after a while, the tree was sawn off, quickly and labor-saving, and the saw was invented.

Before Lu Ban, there will definitely be many people who have encountered a similar situation where their hands were cut by Ye Mo, why only Lu Ban was inspired by it and invented the saw, which is undoubtedly worth thinking about. Most people just think it's a little bit of life and not worth making a fuss about, and they tend to forget about it after they've healed their wounds. However, Lu Ban has a relatively strong curiosity and correct ideas, and pays great attention to the observation, thinking and study of some small events in life, finding ways and ideas to solve problems, and even obtaining some creative inventions.

This tells us a truth, pay attention to many inconspicuous little things in life, and think diligently, which will increase a lot of wisdom. After the invention of sawing, Luban invented many woodworking tools, which are recorded in ancient books.

Edison invented the electric light and did more than 1,500 experiments to find a suitable material for making filament, thus inventing the light bulb.

Luban invented the saw because his hand was cut by a leaf with small tooth and the small tooth of an insect was observed.

Zheng Yuanbao, chairman of Guomin Electric Appliance Group, often emphasizes to employees that enterprises must innovate and innovate in order to develop. So, how do you innovate ideas in practice? Here are a few short stories from history that we can read on a Sunday and can be instructive when we work on Mondays.

There was a large library in the UK that was moving to the house, and the cost of moving it was staggering due to the large volume of books it contained.

That's when a librarian came up with a solution, which was to immediately open the loan to readers and extend the return date, as long as the readers added the corresponding deposit and returned the book to the new address. This measure was obtained.

The result is not only a significant reduction in the cost of book handling, but also a welcome response from readers.

In the past, there was a hotel that was doing very well because of its booming business, and the elevator installed was not enough, and the manager planned to add another one. Experts were brought in, and they decided that the only way was to make holes in each floor and install new elevators directly.

As the experts sat in the hotel discussing the details of the project, their conversation happened to be overheard by a cleaner who was sweeping the floor. The cleaner casually said to them, "If you make a hole in every floor, you're sure to get a lot of dust and mess everywhere." ”

The expert replied: "It's inevitable, who made the hotel not think of installing an extra elevator when it was originally designed?" The cleaner thought for a moment and said, "If I were you, I'd put the elevator outside the building." ”

The experts listened to the cleaner's words and fell into deep thought, but immediately they were applauded by the cleaner's proposal. Since then, a new thing has appeared in the history of architecture - outdoor elevators.

There is a staff member named Shinzo Kato at the Japanese Lion King Company, and when he brushes his teeth with his company's toothbrush, the tip of the toothbrush bristles often makes his gums bleed. He thought about how to change that.

One day, he used a magnifying glass to look closely at the bristles of the toothbrush and noticed that the tip was square. So he thought that if he changed it from square to round, the gums would not be hurt. Taking advantage of a meeting, he presented his proposal to the company, which eventually made his proposal.

This detail has been improved to solve the problem of bleeding gums when brushing your teeth. As a result, the Lion King toothbrush became a bestseller, and later accounted for about 30% of the total toothbrush sales in Japan. And Shinzo Kato was also promoted from a small staff member to a director of the company because of the success of this creative staring at the company.