Choosing the right person

Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window. Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze the situation.

If they are counting the bricks . . . Put them in the accounts department.

If they are recounting them . . . Put them in auditing.

If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks . . . Put them in engineering.

If they are arranging the bricks in some strange 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 resources.

If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been 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 on strategic planning.

. . . and then last but not least . . . If they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved . . . Congratulate them and put them in top management.