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Sunday 18 August 2013

Three Idiots Crossing the Valley


The Activity
The task is to cross a deep valley. Well it may seem like a difficult and dangerous task to begin with. We have three main protagonists who have a bamboo strong enough to take the weight of each of them at a time. The three Protagonists devise a plan. They stand in a straight line, resting the bamboo on their shoulders. Step by step they negotiate the hurdles coming their way. helping each other out in the times of need and finally conquering the valley. The pictorial representation of the entire task can be shown a
follows:

                                                       


Firstly, there was a constraint before performing the task i.e no more than 3 people should do this . Secondly , there was no description about gap length, distance between 2 people, length of pole ,height of all 3 people,etc. As being an engineer, all these figures and calculations were running in my mind.

Then including me sir called 3 people to take a pole and perform this activity on a plain ground just for understanding.

To perform this activity , task has to be divided in 9 process or stages where 3 people would be in between these 3 stages -  safe , half risky and full risky. So stages were like :-



Step
State of 1st Person
State of 2nd person
State of 3rd person
1.
Safe
Safe
Safe
2.
Half-Risky
Safe
Safe
3.
Full-Risky
Safe
Safe
4.
Half-Risky
Half-Risky
Safe
5.
Safe
Full-Risky
Safe
6.
Safe
Half-Risky
Half-Risky
7.
Safe
Safe
Full-Risky
8.
Safe
Safe
Half-Risky
9.
Safe
Safe
Safe


The total number of steps taken: 27
Where three were full risk Steps, 6 half risk steps and rest 18 were safe.
Our aim to this activity is to reduce the risks and half risks to safe zone.
When the risk zones cannot be reduced, proper precautions need to be taken to curb this.
Every step requires dedication and synchronization of thoughts and action to safe the valley safely.
In management too, every step needs to be measured before taken to reduce significant errors, that can put the whole company as a whole at risk.

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