July 22, 2005

The right chair for the right person

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 and come back after 6 hours, and then analyze the situation:

1 If they are counting and recounting the number of bricks
- PUT THEM IN ACCOUNTS DEPT
2 If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks
- PUT THEM IN THE ENGINEERING
3 If they are arranging the bricks in some other order
- PUT THEM IN PLANNING
4 If they are throwing the bricks at each other
- PUT THEM IN OPERATIONS
5 If they are sleeping
- PUT THEM IN ! SECURITY
6 If they have broken the bricks into pieces
- PUT THEM IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
7 If they are staring out of the window
- PUT THEM IN THE EXPORT
8 If they are sitting idle
- PUT THEM IN HUMAN RESOURCE DEPT
9 If they have thrown the bricks out of the window
- PUT THEM IN THE MATERIALS DEPT
10 If they are clinging onto the bricks
- PUT THEM IN TREASURY
11 If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has moved
- PUT THEM IN SALES
12 If they have already left for the day
- PUT THEM IN MARKETING.
13 If they are talking to each other and not a brick has moved
- PUT THEM IN TOP MANAGEMENT