Looking Bad – One of my co-workers gave me a packet of material that was held together by a paper clip. The shiny finish had worn off the clip so it looked like a WWII holdover. I told her that she should throw out those substandard clips but she said she was keeping them because they work better. It was because the dull finish (where the shiny had worn off) didn’t slide off the paper as easily.


So make sure, when you are looking at possible solutions to a problem, that you don’t reject ones just because they don’t look so good on the surface.