[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
Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers
A career is a job that has gone on too long. - Jeff MacNelly
Step aside Coffee. This is a job for Alcohol. - Unknown
Don't torture yourself... that's my job. - Carolyn Jones
Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne
Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. - Jim Rohn
An optimist is simply a pessimist with no job experience. - Dilbert
Hard work is the best remedy for all of life's trials. - Unknown
Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work. - Marilyn Suttle
Talent is no match for hard work, determination, and perseverance. - Unknown
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. - Elbert Hubbard
Communism is like prohibition - it's a good idea but it won't work. - Will Rogers
Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job. - Chris Pine
The number one job facing the middle class... a three-letter word, jobs, J-O-B-S. - Joe Biden
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. - Ann Oakley
When you work the buttons here, see, it develops what ya call the digitalis skills. - Archie Bunker
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. - Peter F Drucker
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz
When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges. - Jack Handy
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. - Henri F Amiel
I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia
Reporter: "How many people work at the Vatican?"
Pope John XXIII: "About half." - Pope John XXIII
As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work. - Rob Dyrdek
Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work. - Harvey Mackay
One machine can do the work of a hundred ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard
Nighttime is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. - Catherine O'Hara
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 get up in the morning and you say, 'I got to go to work. How can I get out of this?' you're not happy. - Red Auerbach
The person who knows "how" will always have a job.
The person who knows "why" will always be his boss. - Diane Ravitch
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
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. - Martin H. Fischer
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream. - Tommy Hilfiger
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. - William Arthur Ward
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
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else too. - Meryl Streep
Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. - Toni Morrison
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