One of my favourite stories is about slow elevators. As it is
told, there was a co-op building in New York where tenants were
complaining about slow elevators. Management considered all
sorts of solutions including installing additional elevators or
speeding up the existing ones until one day someone came up with
the idea of putting mirrors beside the elevators so people would
have something to do when waiting and then wouldn’t notice the
slow service. Great lateral thinking. Lateral thinking as
defined by Wikipedia is “solving problems through an indirect
and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately
obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using
only traditional step-by-step logic. The term was coined in 1967
by Edward de Bono.” One of the best ways to innovate is using
lateral thinking, so in order to get your innovative juices
flowing I want you to solve the following puzzle. I’ll post the
answer tomorrow in a reply to the blog in case you don’t get it.
A woman had two so