October 2008
New Job Placement Strategy
Put 400 bricks in an enclosed room.
Bring your new hires into the room and leave them.
Close the door and come back after six hours.
Then analyze the situation:
If they are counting the bricks, put them in Accounting.
If they are recounting the bricks, put them in Auditing.
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 say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved—or if they say that they are “looking for more bricks,” , put them in Sales.
If they have already left for the day, put them in Management.
If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.
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