Think Small

This might sound contrary to popular wisdom... But this is the advice one of our professors gave us. Most often we get caught up in dreaming big and in weaving elaborate plans that we forget to concentrate on the details...

Great ideas and great products fail because of small issues.. The B2 "Stealth Bomber" had cost billions of dollars to develop. But its design is fundamentally flawed because two aerodynamicists made a mistake.. They used mathematical formulas to determine how an aircraft’s volume should be proportioned between wing and fuselage in order to maximize its range. Taking derivative of the range with respect to the volume, they found that this derivative equaled zero when the total volume was almost all in the wing. Hence they concluded that a “flying wing” design would maximize range. What they forgot was “taking the second derivative”. This happened to be positive in this case. Thus the flying wing actually minimized the range. The flying wing was the aerodynamically worst possible choice of configuration.

Small mistake… but a rather costly failure… The devil is in the details.. Think small

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Am currently pursuing my PGP in management from ISB... This institute rocks and there are loads of interesting perspectives i pick up everyday..

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