How to recruit the right person for the job.

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 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 reception.

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.

If they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved congratulate them and put them in top management!