[Does your company have a problem in recruiting the right person for the right position? Try this simple experiment to place your employees where they belong...]
Put around 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window. Then send 2-3 candidates into the room and close it from outside. Leave them alone, come back after 6 hours and then analyze the situation:
If they are counting and recounting the bricks - Put them in Accounts Dept.
If they are wrongly counting the bricks - Put them in Stores Dept.
If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks - Put them in Engineering.
If they are arranging the bricks in some other order - Put them in Planning.
If they are throwing the bricks at each other - Put them in Operations.
If they are sleeping - Put them in Security.
If they have broken the bricks into pieces - Put them in Information Technology.
If they are sitting idle - Put them in Human Resource Dept.
If they have thrown the bricks out of the window - Put them in Materials Dept.
If they are clinging on to the bricks - Put them in Treasury.
If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has moved - Put them in Sales.
If they have already left for the day - Put them in Marketing.
If they are staring out of the window - Put them in Shipping.
If they are searching for defects - Put them in Quality Control.
If they are talking to each other and not a brick has been moved - Put them in Top Management...
It's puzzling work, talking is. - George Eliot
The harder you work, the harder it is to lose. - Unknown
Acting is everybody's favorite second job. - Jack Nicholson
The rest of the bricks and bracks on the mantle. - Archie Bunker
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. - Edmund Burke
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. - Henry David Thoreau
Hard work is exhilarating; worrying hard is a killer. - Joe Segal
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. - Saint Francis of Assisi
Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice and need. - Voltaire
Throwing bricks and bottles, it's like a regular inserruption. - Archie Bunker
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. - Peter F Drucker
Work with the raw material you have - namely you - and never let up. - Helen G Brown
Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. - Joe Hill
There is no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary. - Donald Kimball
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day. - George Allen
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't in on that particular job. - Brian Clough
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' - Lao Tzu
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. - Peter F Drucker
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost
I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia
Economists are people who work with numbers but who don't have the personality to be accountants. - Unknown
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Gen. Colin L. Powell
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope
As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work. - Rob Dyrdek
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but the careers of those who work for him. - H.M.S. Burns
The leader's job is to see the best in human beings who have never caught sight of the best within themselves. - Robin Sharma
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. - Paulo Coelho
Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. - Alan Menken
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later. - Drew Goddard
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. - Robert Frost
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen
It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Having kids - the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings - is the biggest job anyone can embark on. - Maria Shriver
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours. - Lady Hasluck
Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. - Simon Sinek
I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check. - Halle Berry
There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group - there is much less competition. - Indira Gandhi
I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing. - Melissa McCarthy
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