A
few days before Christmas, the Spanish aeronautic engineer, Manuel
Jalon, the man who lift the women off the floor, passed away.
While
drinking beer in the Tubo of Zaragoza, a friend challenged him to
invent something practical and useful for people, pointing to a woman on
her knees scrubbing the floor. With ingenuity and passion, he designed
the floor mop, and also a factory to fabricate it in great numbers. To
his imaginative talent, united also his entrepreneurial capacity.
From
the first model Mop, the Cisne (Swan) created in 1964, practically
never changed till today, more than 50 millions units have been sold,
without counting the many imitations, avoiding rheumatic diseases that
suffered a lot of women doing scrubbing chores.
Jalon also designed in 1978 a disposable (of once only use) syringe,
for injecting or withdrawing fluids from the body, fabricated 25,000
million units in 15 factories all over the world.
However,
it mattered less to him the numbers but very much the people; the
lives that could be improved or saved, understanding well that talent
should be put into service for the good of the society. Despite being a
businessman and creator of useful objects, he was very much against the
kind of consumer society, and had clear idea of his responsibility to
rectify those multinational companies that extended their products all
over the globe with the benefits exclusively to the proprietors. He
also knew that society didn't need frenetically new products but good
and reliable products, economic and durable ones.
What
was the motto of this humanist advocate on route of extinction?
'Dreaming actively, seeing and anticipating a better future for all'.
Which business school teaches this doctrine?
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