Design Solutions ,Contributor Personality Development (GTU)

1. “Design Solutions”
Prepared By:- Dasani Yash R (Assi. Prof.)
Civil Engineering Department, DRVRGCET 1

2. WHO ISA CONTRIBUTOR ?
 One who makes a difference in the lives of people
around him.
 One who thinks of giving something.
 Promotes win - win situation.
 Believes in man-making rather than polishing only the
outside (when there is nothing inside).
 Thinks of “We” and not “I”.

3. INTRODUCTION
 Contributors approach the various situations in their life
and work place with a unique mindset. This mindset we
call, the ‘Contributor Mindset’.
 The first aspect of the Contributor Mindset is the
Contributor’s willingness and capacity to find solutions.
 When faced with a challenge, the Contributor’s first
response is “Can we find a solution?”

4.  But this is not all. The Contributor also “finds a solution”.
 Contributor develops the capacity to find solutions
through continuous practice and learning from other
contributors.

5. CONCEPT EXPLORATION

6. Do Not Keep Rigid Mindset

7. Rigidity exists in society in form of
 People – Henry Ford on Model T.
– “Available in any colour as long as it is black”.
 System – Bureaucracy at work place
– BSNL : Bhai Saheb Nahi Lagega.
 Ideas (very critical !)
– “Nobody can pass the sound barrier”
– “Everything that can be invented has been
invented”
– “Our culture is doomed.”

8. Think Of Alternate Solutions / Ideas

9. Generating new possibilities is the first step in creating
innovations.
HOW do you discover and create possibilities?
 Start with yourself
– You probably have millions of good ideas located right
there in your head, already. You just have to get hold of
them and pull them out.
 Learn about community
– You need to gather enough information to form an overall
picture of people's interests, struggles, similarities, values,
and differences

10.  Think about the future
– We can make some educated guesses. And those guesses may
help us figure out next steps that work for our communities.
 Get beyond hopelessness
– Difficult time being creative and thinking about new
possibilities.
 Be courageous
– In order to be creative you may have to be courageous. You
may have to dare to think in ways that are different from
others.

11. Orville Wright Wilbur Wright
INVENTORS OF THE AIRPLANE
“The airplane stays up in the air because it doesn’t have
the time to fall…”

12.  Both the Wright Brothers never graduated from High School.
 In 1889 the Wright Brothers started the West Side News.
 It was a weekly newspaper that Wilbur and Orville Wright
published briefly in 1889 and 1891.
 In 1893 The Wright Brothers started a bicycle shop that
allowed them to rent and repair bicycles.
 Only 5 of the Wright Brother's bicycles exist to this day.

13.  They gained the mechanical skills essential for their
success by working for years in their printing shop with
presses, bicycles, motors, machinery and other.
 Their work with bicycles in particular influenced their belief
that an unstable vehicle like a flying machine could be
controlled and balanced with practice.
 This shows their continuous dedication towards work and
improving their skills.
 When the world was thinking of ways to speed up travel
on Land and Water, they came up with a completely
new idea of travel by Air !!!

14. First Lift Off by Mankind
On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the
Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air
machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot
aboard.

15. Contribution
See where we are today !!!
The journey would have been longer if they didn't.
In 1903, we were

16. Don’t Give Excuses

17. When facing a problem
 Non – Contributors give all type of excuses whenever some
problem crops up which they know is going to push them to
the extremes.
 For them, the glass is ‘always half empty’.
 Contributors, on the other hand, have a Will-Do attitude (not
just can-do). The glass is ‘always half full’for them.
 Having a such an attitude is actually about making a
decision to look to the solution rather than just the
problem.
 How to cultivate a ‘can-do’attitude?

18. Can-DoAttitude of a Contributor
 I can do everything, if its important enough for me to do.
 I may not do all at once but I can do everything.
 I may not be best at everything but I can do everything.
 There will be limitations but I can do everything.
 I’ll need help but I can do everything.

19. Ratan Tata
 Ratan Naval Tata is the present chairman of Tata Sons and
therefore, Tata Group.
 He is also the chairman of major Tata companies.

20.  He had determined to set up a plant for Tana Nano in India.
 He faced major opposition and struggled with the land
acquisition controversy, acquisition of the proposed Nano
factory of Tata Motors at [Singur] in Hooghly district, West
Bengal, India.
 Despite of all the problems faced by him, he didn’t lose
hope and soon found a growing opportunity in Sanand,
Gujarat.
 His major concern all the way was not just his own profit
but comfort to the middle-class.

21. Fear Of Failure

22. Case Study 1: THOUGHT OF LIGHT
 In 1879, Edison discovered
that a carbon filament
in an oxygen-free bulb
glowed but did not burn
up for 40 hours.
 Edison eventually produced
a bulb that could glow
for over 1500 hours.
Thomas Alva Edison

23. Meaning of Failure

24. Case Study 2: Henry Ford Failed

25. Ford’s failures at a glance
 He “burned” through all the money from his first group of
investors without producing a car.
 He eventually produced a car and raised another $60,000 in
share capital, but his Detroit Auto Company went bankrupt.
 In the 1920s, Henry Ford refused to update the Model T
car, leading sales to fall dramatically.
 Ford tried to launch a political career, but never succeeded.
"Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more
intelligently."- Henry Ford

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