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Management By Simplicity

By Praveen Kumar.S, Faculty-Department of Management Studies, Panimalar Engineering College, Chennai, India.

As I was carelessly browsing some questions posed in the website, to check the level of common sense, this question popped on my screen, it asked “You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?” My educated mind had a quick answer “First, of course”.  It replied “If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second.” It warned be to be more careful in answering the second, “If you overtake the last person, then you are...?.” My conditioned mind immediately said “second to the last”. It retorted back “If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the last Person? ” I started of with a hypothesis that probably, the educated mind tries to complicate things rather than to simplify.

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