Wednesday, December 8, 2010

How to build a company? an analogy

The method consists of,
  1. Put all the candidates in a warehouse.
  2. Provide 200 bricks each.
  3. Do not give any guidance on what to do.

After six hours, go back and check what they did.
Follows the analysis of results;
  1. Those who counted the bricks hire as Accountants.
  2. Those who counted and then recounted the bricks are Auditors.
  3. Those who have arranged the bricks in a very strange, hard to understand manner, put them in Planning, Design and Production Control.
  4. Those that broke the bricks and are trying to paste them again should go to Information Technology (Development).
  5. Those that are sitting chatting or are clueless send them to Human Resources.
  6. Those who have already left the premises are the Managers.
  7. People who are looking out the window staring into infinity are responsible for Strategic Planning.
  8. Those who are talking to each other with their hands in their pockets showing that they have not even touched the bricks and would never do that, greet them with great respect and put them on the Directors Board.
  9. The ones that have raised a wall and hiding behind are the Marketing Department.
  10. Those who claim not to be seeing a single brick in the room and that bricks were never there are lawyers, refer to the Legal Department.
  11. Those who claim that the bricks are a mess, without identification, without standardization and with wrong measures, put in Quality Control.
  12. Those that begin to call others ‘comrades’, release them immediately before they create a union.

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