{"id":21,"date":"2005-11-09T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/?p=21"},"modified":"2005-11-09T15:52:49","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T10:22:49","slug":"how-to-put-the-right-person-in-the-right-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2005\/11\/09\/how-to-put-the-right-person-in-the-right-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"How to put the right person in the right chair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does your Company have a problem in recruiting the<br \/>\nright person for the right chair?  If yes, try this<br \/>\nsimple experiment. <\/p>\n<p>Put around 100 bricks in some particular order in a<br \/>\nclosed room with an open window. Then send 2-3<br \/>\ncandidates into the room and close it from outside.<br \/>\nLeave them alone and come back after 6 hours, and then<br \/>\nanalyze the situation: <\/p>\n<p>If they are counting and recounting the number of<br \/>\nbricks &#8211; PUT THEM IN <strong>ACCOUNTS <\/strong>DEPT. <\/p>\n<p>If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks<br \/>\nPUT THEM IN <strong>ENGINEERING<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>If they are arranging the bricks in some other order &#8211;<br \/>\nPUT THEM IN <strong>PLANNING<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>If they are throwing the bricks at each other &#8211;<br \/>\nPUT THEM IN <strong>OPERATIONS<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>If they are sleeping &#8211;<br \/>\nPUT THEM IN <strong>SECURITY<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>If they have broken the bricks into pieces &#8211;<br \/>\nPUT THEM IN <strong>INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>If they are sitting idle &#8211;<br \/>\nPUT THEM IN <strong>HUMAN RESOURCE DEPT<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>If they have thrown the bricks out of the window &#8211;<br \/>\nPUT THEM IN THE <strong>MATERIALS <\/strong>DEPT. <\/p>\n<p>If they are clinging onto the bricks &#8211;<br \/>\nPUT THEM IN <strong>TREASURY<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>If they say they have tried different combinations,<br \/>\nyet not a brick has moved &#8211;<br \/>\nPUT THEM IN <strong>SALES<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>If they have already left for the day &#8211;<br \/>\nPUT THEM IN <strong>MARKETING<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>If they are staring out of the window &#8211;<br \/>\nPUT THEM IN THE <strong>EXPORT<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>AND last but not least&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>If they are talking to each other and not a brick has<br \/>\nmoved &#8211; PUT THEM IN <strong>TOP MANAGEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does your Company have a problem in recruiting the right person for the right chair? If yes, try this simple experiment. Put around 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window. Then send 2-3 candidates into the room and close it from outside. Leave them alone and come back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forwards","tag-forwards","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}