[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...
Work: The thing that interferes with golf. - Frank Dane
Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. - Gordon Hinckley
Step aside Coffee. This is a job for Alcohol. - Unknown
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not like work, even when somebody else is doing it. - Mark Twain
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty. - Voltaire
Careful thinking and hard work will solve nearly all your problems. - Ullery
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - J.M. Barrie
Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. - Joe Hill
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. - Jack Nicholson
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin
Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now. - Donald Trump
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. - Dale Carnegie
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali
I have been all things unholy; if God can work through me, He can work through anyone. - St Francis of Assisi
I don't work out. If God wanted us to bend over, he'd put diamonds on the floor. - Joan Rivers
If you think your boss is stupid remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was smarter. - Albert Grant
The richest people in the world look for and build networks. Everyone else looks for work. - Robert Kiyosaki
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. - Ann Landers
Never work just for money or power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. - Marian Wright Edelman
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. - Arthur Miller
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. - Emily Bronte
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
Reporter: "How many people work at the Vatican?"
Pope John XXIII: "About half." - Pope John XXIII
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team. - John C Maxwell
My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them. - Sergio Marchionne
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had. - Jimmy Connors
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben
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
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen
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
Dream big - dream very big. Word hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait, and fully surrender. - Oprah Winfrey
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
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
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