Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window. Then send 2 or 3 candidates into the room and close the door. Leave them alone and come back after 3 hours and analyze the situation -
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If they are counting the bricks; Put them in the Accounts Department. |
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If they are recounting them; Put them in Auditing. |
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If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks; Put them in Engineering. |
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If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order; Put them in Planning. |
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If they are throwing the bricks at each other; Put them in Operations. |
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If they are sleeping; Put them in Security. |
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If they have broken the bricks into pieces; Put them in IT. |
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If they are sitting idle; Put them in Human Resources. |
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If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved; Put them in Sales. |
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If they have already left for the day; Put them in Marketing. |
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If they are staring out of the window; Put them on Strategic Planning. |
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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 Senior Management