Why are accidents opportunities?
One day, Frank, a young employee of the company, operated the blender. Near noon, many workers in the workshop went to have lunch. At this time, Frank just poured several barrels of ingredients into the blender. If we wait for it to be stirred successfully. According to the usual experience, it takes about 25 to 30 minutes, but the workers who went to eat at that time would not go back to the workshop. Without a foundry worker, the soap slurry can only be kept in the blender, and Frank can't do these things alone. By this time, Frank was hungry because he ate too little breakfast. He thought, instead of waiting in the workshop alone with an empty stomach, it is better to take the time to go to the restaurant for lunch and come back immediately after lunch, which is also the time for other workers to return to the workshop one after another. He had lunch in time and didn't delay his work.
After making up his mind, Frank turned on the steam-driven mixer and went straight to the restaurant for lunch. After lunch, because it was too hot, everyone was tired from work, and the workers sat in the restaurant and chatted cheerfully. Frank, who had a hurried lunch, just wanted to go back to the workshop when several foundry workers stopped him and said, "Everyone is here. What can you do if you go back alone? " Come on, have a rest and talk about interesting things you know. "
"Yes, everyone is here. What can I do if I go back to the workshop alone? " Frank, who had reached the door, turned and walked back. Everyone chatted in the restaurant, and an hour and a half passed unconsciously. When they trotted back to the workshop in the roar of the supervisor, they were suddenly stunned by the still-running agitator, only to see that the agitator turned into a huge, rotating foam pile, shining in the light, and piles of beautiful foam were everywhere on the floor and machines of the workshop. The supervisor jumped over to turn off the blender and severely criticized Frank and other workers.
Whether more than a dozen barrels of foam soap can still be used is anybody's guess. As a last resort, the supervisor went to wake up the technician who was taking a lunch break. Technicians made a careful inspection of these dozens of barrels of slurry, and identified that although there were so many bubbles, they were not damaged themselves and could continue to be used.
Surprisingly, more than a month later, the company received a large number of letters and orders from customers, claiming that as long as P&G produced "floating soap". What is "floating soap"? The managers and management of Procter & Gamble are very puzzled. They have never heard of this kind of soap produced by their company. But the customer named them as producing this kind of soap, so the company looked for the reason from top to bottom to understand what was going on. Later, they remembered Frank's accidental mistake, so they conducted another experiment according to that accidental mistake. The experimental results show that it is the foam stirred up by the slurry that makes the soap body full of bubbles, and these bubbles hidden in the soap body make every soap float on the water surface, which avoids the pain of soap accidentally falling into the water and people's "fishing for the moon in the water", which greatly facilitates people's lives.
After the unexpected success of the experiment, Procter & Gamble immediately revised the soap making procedure and specially produced "floating soap". "Floating soap" quickly became the rage and became the best-selling product of Procter & Gamble, which brought huge profits to Procter & Gamble.
This unexpected joy also inspired Procter & Gamble. The company decided that in the future, it should not only pay attention to the expected results of the test, but also pay attention to those "unexpected" results. Because there are some accidents, it is also an unexpected turn for the better.
Yes, we can't ignore the "accidents" in life and career. Accidents may also include unexpected changes. Sometimes, accidents are also opportunities to change us Grasp the "accident", "accident" may make us unexpectedly discover the "bright future".