A man in the 1930's, Malcom McLean, found himself trucking cotton daily and waiting a horrendous amount of time at docking stations for them to unload the line of trucks. Malcom had the simple idea of rather than creating faster boats to reduce the time people should focus on the transfer from the trucks to boats and so on. With the use of shipping containers you could simply transfer a whole trucks worth of cargo seamlessly. Many people did not acknowledge this idea till 20 years later when it finally became relevant. Rather than taking a week to load a ship it took 8hrs. Malcom McLean, an outsider, had the capability to shape and change our globe and economy witha simple idea based merely on the fact that he wanted to get home in time for Thanksgiving the next day.
The purpose was to inform people how anyone is capable of helping change and shape our world for the good and that you don't have to be anyone or somebody. To be honest, anyone from history that has improved our world for good change could connect with Malcom McLean. For Example, Hariet Beacher Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin transforming many views on slavey and in old Abe's opinion, shes the woman who started the civil war.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000004807604/the-power-of-outsiders.html
Wow, that was very insightful. I really like your synthesis, especially since harriett Beecher Stowe was a woman and women were not treated as equals.
ReplyDeleteWow, this is so important, I'm really surprised this man has never been brought up before. This is such an important innovation in our world today, it's so surprising the relevancy of the idea was ignored.
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