An amazing story of Problem Solving | The 18th Camel

Today what I am going to share is an interesting story, which resonates an amazing problem solving technique. Sometimes upon getting a problem we become defensive and after a little try we conclude that there is no solution to the problem; and the anxiety or irritation broods up. But what if I say that there is solution to every problem; only we need to have the peace of mind to find it. 

How?? Let's get to know the story...

 

Once there lived a wealthy merchant in the East, who passed away due to his ageing factor. In his will, the man stated equally division of his wealth to his three sons but his most treasured camels were divided in rather challenging way.

According to the will the eldest son was to be given half of the camels, the middle son was to be given one third of the camels, and the youngest son was to be given one ninth of the camels. 

The merchant had seventeen camels. As it was not possible to divide 17 camels into half, one third or even into one ninth. The three son started fighting with each other for their fair share of the camels.

Since the sons were not able distribute the camel among them, they went to a wise man for advice. The wise man patiently listened about the sons’ dilemma. After carefully understanding the situation the wise man brought one of his camels and added to the the seventeen camels of the merchant. That increased the total to eighteen (18) camels.

Now, he started reading the deceased father’s will and divided the camels. Half of eighteen is nine. So he gave the eldest son nine camels. One third of the eighteen is six, so he gave the middle son six camels. The youngest son got one ninth of the eighteen camels, so he gave him two camels.

After giving nine, six and two camels to the sons, he successfully distributed seventeen camels. The wise man took back his camel.

➥ Moral: The attitude of negotiation and problem solving is to find the 18th camel i.e. the common ground. Once a person is able to find the common ground, the issue is resolved. It is difficult at times. 

However, to reach a solution, the first step is to believe that there is a solution. If we think that there is no solution, we won’t be able to reach anywhere!

Picture courtesy to Google....

Certification on 'HR Management & Analytics'

 This pandemic situation (COVID-19) has taught us many aspects in life, both in positive and negative way. However one good aspects of this situation is upgrading skills through online courses. 

There are plenty websites available to undertake the online courses on various subjects. One among them I found was AMITY FUTURE ACADEMY. Recently I had completed an administration course from the academy and found very useful.

It was "HR Management and Analytics". 

The best parts of this course are:

➥ Crisp and precise content

➥ An experienced facilitator and his training techniques

➥ Course is divided into structured modules (with not so long duration)

➥ Each subject matter was well explained with suitable examples

➥ The great looking certificate

➥ It's not so cheap (I mean to say it is a paid course)

I have several key take-aways as I always wanted to upgrade my skill sin Human Resource Management and Analytics. I am sure I shall cherish and apply the learnings at work getting an opportunity.

You can learn many courses from the same weblink, based on your choice of content. 

'Water Melon Seeds' - A Lovely Story reflect on our Tradition

Today I am going to share with you how important to have the traditions which we live by. We must understand the myth and realty about them, at least to be wise with them.

I will share an article which I read couple of months back, and it is quite interesting and meaningful for all of us. It was narrated by the Late Hon Former Chief Minister of Goa, Manohar Parrikar.

It goes like this............

" I come from the village of Parra in Goa.

My village is famous for its watermelons. When he was a child, the farmers would organize a watermelon-eating competition at the end of the harvest season in May.

All the kids would be invited to eat as many watermelons as they wanted.

Years later, I went to IIT Mumbai to study Engineering.

I went back to my village after 6.5 years. I went to the market looking for watermelons. They were all gone. The ones that were there were so small..

I went to see the farmer who hosted the watermelon-eating contest.

His son had now taken over. He would host the contest but there was a difference, when the older farmer gave us watermelons to eat he would ask us to spit out the seeds into bowl.

We were told not to bite into the seeds. He was collecting the seeds for his next crop. We were unpaid child labors, actually.

He kept his best watermelons for the contest and he got the best seeds which would yield even bigger watermelons the next year.

His son, when he took over, realized that the larger watermelons would fetch more money in the market so he sold the larger ones and kept the smaller ones for the contest.

The next year, the watermelons were smaller, the year later even small. In watermelons the generation is one year.

In seven years, Parra's best watermelon were finished".

From this story, there are few important learnings we can extract..

1. In humans, generations change after 25 years. It will take us 200 years to figure out what we were doing wrong by depleting and destroying the earth through our current practices.

2. We must retain and sow back the beautiful gifts of nature we have today to sustain the livelihood of our generations to come.

3. No matter how much modern we become with current generation, we should never ignore our tradition, it certainly has some deep meaning.

L&D Activity - F&B | Table Laying Competition

Learning and Development is full of excitements, happiness, energy and lots of new things - be it learnings, be it people or be it development. I am blessed to be part of Learning and Development segment and i am thoroughly enjoying it.

Today, I wish to share a throwback moment from February' 2020 when I conducted a learning activity for our Food and Beverage Associates, with the help of my other team members. 

It was the 'Table Laying Competition'. The agenda was to test the knowledge of our associates on 'Menu Planning', 'Misc-en-Place' and 'Table Set up'. The competition was judged by our General Manager, Director- F&B, Residents Manager, and Rooms Division Manager.

Great to see the performance of our associates through this competition, it was indeed a success to test their knowledge. We also understood certain points where the improvements are to be done.

Participants with the Competition Judges

 Participants listening to the instructions carefully

And...the competition began

Ready to be assessed

Giving the final touch to set up

Judging is going on

Debriefing by General Manager

Picture courtesy to SELF