Thread: bricks, which are you?

Put about 100 bricks in no 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 analyse 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 little pieces: Put them in information technology.

If they are sitting idle: Put them in human resources.

If they say they have tried different combinations, but not a single brick has been moved: Put them in sales.

If they have left for the day: Put them in marketing.

If they are staring out of the window: Put them in strategic planning.



If they are carefully peering under each brick to see what is living underneath: Put them in the environment team.

And finally –



If they are talking to each other and have not yet noticed that there are bricks there: Congratulate them and put them in senior management!

I would chuck them all out the window!