[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...
Luck is when hard work meets opportunity. - David Foster
Always be the person you would want to work for. - Liz Brenner
The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence. - Max Reinhardt
Every member must work or quit. No honorary members. - Charles Finney
My sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith. - Jean-Paul Sartre
From each according to his ability, to each according to his work - Claude de Rouvroy
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie
A bad job with a good boss is better than a good job with a bad boss. - Unknown
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. - Arnold J Toynbee
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. - Jean-Paul Sartre
The number one job facing the middle class... a three-letter word, jobs, J-O-B-S. - Joe Biden
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter F Drucker
I believe in moderation. I work on genealogy only on days that end in 'y'. - Richard Thiesen
When you work the buttons here, see, it develops what ya call the digitalis skills. - Archie Bunker
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. - Peter F Drucker
The closest a person ever comes to perfection is when he fills out a job application form. - Stanley Randall
Never work just for money or power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. - Marian Wright Edelman
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. - Bill Gates
The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any. - Maurice Switzer
If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. - Ogden Nash
As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work. - Rob Dyrdek
Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it. - Jack Nichols
My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them. - Sergio Marchionne
People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while. - Marilyn vos Savant
You can always tell a real friend: when you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. - Laurence Peter
People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work. - Marilyn Suttle
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. - Peter F Drucker
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. - Theodore Roosevelt
Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation. - Gerald Chertavian
The key to happiness and youth is an unencumbered spirit – whether it comes naturally or whether you have to work hard for it. - Emme Woodhull-Bache
I think Mr. Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I'm around. - Homer Simpson
I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell? - Homer Simpson
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
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. - Johnny Unitas
Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground. - Evan Spiegel
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. - Noam Chomsky
If it's green, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it has numbers, it's math. If it doesn't work, it's technology. - Unknown
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