[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...
First get the job; then get the job done. - Unknown
No man ever listened himself out of a job. - Calvin Coolidge
Never send a human to do a machine's job. - Hugo Weaving
The rest of the bricks and bracks on the mantle. - Archie Bunker
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. - Sigmund Freud
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. - Bette Davis
Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. - Gerhard Kocher
Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job. - James Joyce
I'm not a social drinker, it's mostly work related. - Unknown
You're the lowly pheasant with the job of keeping her here. - Archie Bunker
Exhibit pride in your work and humility in your accomplishments. - Unknown
Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. - Nadia Comaneci
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Jerome K. Jerome
Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers
Throwing bricks and bottles, it's like a regular inserruption. - Archie Bunker
Most people want to improve themselves, but not many want to work at it. - Unknown
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. - Fred Astaire
When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't. - Gary Goetzman
I measure my own success as a leader by how well the people who work for me succeed. - Maria Shi
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. - Steven Wright
Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. - Dan Zevin
Fears work into the mind like maggots in a corpse; they fester and boil and work to no good. - David C. Smith & Richard L. Tierney
I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did. - Donald Trump
If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow. - Celia Cruz
I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death. - Lincoln Davis
I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness. - Emo Philips
One machine can do the work of a hundred ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard
My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them. - Sergio Marchionne
Play is a vital learning medium for a child. In a sense play is his work. And he discovers knowledge for himself. - Raymond Moore
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 only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world. - Marianne Williamson
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. - Robert Frost
I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work. - George Carlin
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies because you never know when you'll have to work with them. - Lana Turner
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. - Diana Rankin
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
He had a sense of irony that ruled his life, made it impossible for him to use his considerable brains in any kind of serious job. Kind of like me. - Neal Stephenson
Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible. - Harvey Mackay
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