[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...
The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read
It's puzzling work, talking is. - George Eliot
Work is the curse of the drinking class. - Oscar Wilde
My dream job would be the Karma delivery service. - Bill Murray
Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. - William Randolph
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison
Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. - Joe Hill
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - Dave Barry
Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet. - Douglas Adams
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. - Earl Nightingale
Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job. - Chris Pine
In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously. - Jay Leno
I have been all things unholy; if God can work through me, He can work through anyone. - St Francis of Assisi
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. - Henry Drummond
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. - R.E. Shay
From an early age I understood that cooking was never going to be a job, it's a passion. - Gordon Ramsay
The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love. - Monique Roffey
If A is success in life, then A = X + Y + Z. Work is X, play is Y, and Z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
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
How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? - Jacques Plante
Nighttime is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. - Catherine O'Hara
My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them. - Sergio Marchionne
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. - Pearl S Buck
I had a job selling hearing aids from door to door. It wasn't easy, because your best prospects never answered. - Bob Monkhouse
People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while. - Marilyn vos Savant
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. - Leo Tolstoy
Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now, for surely it will be worth it in the end. - Sanjo Jendayi
If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers! - Homer Simpson
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
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work. - Anna Pavlova
I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate. - Graham Greene
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people, so that they can get on with their jobs. - Robert Townsend
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