ini baru batu bata...

entah siapa yang menemukan benda yang bernama ‘batu bata’. barangkali diantara anda ada yang mengetahui. kalau pun tidak tahu tentu saja tidak menjadi persoalan besar. untuk apa batu bata digunakan juga tidak usah saya perjelas lagi. namun benda berukuran kecil ini dapat menghidupi orang banyak. di semarang ada sebuah paguyuban pembuat batu bata.

lain semarang lain mancanegara. batu bata yang di sana disebut sebagai brick malahan dipakai sebagai alat uji. benar-tidaknya atau sahih tidaknya alat ukur ini saya serahkan sepenuhnya kepada yang berkompeten dibidang uji-menguji karyawan alias bagian human resources.

Put about 100 bricks in some 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 security.
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

And then last but not least. If they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved. Congratulate them and put them in top management.

setelah saya baca, barangkali ada benarnya juga. namun tentu saja anda bebas untuk berpendapat lain. setuju silakan. tidak suka juga tak ada masalah. inikah demokrasi? wah, ya terlalu jauh kalau dikait-kaitkan dengan itu.