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When recruiting at British universities, PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the Big Four auditing firms with its headquarters in the
When recruiting at British universities, PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the Big Four auditing firms with its headquarters in the
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2015-06-24
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When recruiting at British universities, PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the Big Four auditing firms with its headquarters in the New York City, presents candidates with an unusual exercise. They are asked to build a tall and sturdy tower using the smallest possible number of snap-together Lego bricks. Similarly, at Google Games, a recruiting event first staged by the search-enginegiant in April, candidates are invited to build Lego bridges—the stronger the better.
In each case, the company is trying to convey the idea that it offers a creative, fun working environment. "It was as much advertising as a way of trying to get recruits," says Brett Daniel, a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who built the Google Games’ weakest bridge.
A Danish firm, based in Billund, Denmark, has embraced the corporate use of its colored plastic bricks. As part of a scheme called "Serious Play" it is certifying a growing number of professional Lego consultants, now present in 25 countries. They coach managers by getting them to build "metaphorical abstractions" of such things as corporate strategy, says Lego’s Jesper Jensen, who runs the scheme. Hisham El-Gamal of Quest, a management consultancy based in Cairo that offers Serious Play workshops, says demand for the two-day, $7,000 courses is booming.
Firms in crisis, such as those corrupted by scandal or in the pains of a takeover, tend to be most receptive to the idea of Lego workshops, says Francois de Boissezon of Imagics, a consultancy based in Brussels. The results can be embarrassing, particularly for senior managers. Tsai Yu-Chen of UGene Mentor, a Serious Play consultancy based in Taipei, says a common exercise is modeling, but not naming, "the people you hate most". One chief executive was modeled as a figure so fat that he blocked a hallway, suggesting he was clogging up the company.
Lego workshops are effective because child-like play is a form of instinctive behavior not regulated by conscious thought, says Lucio Margulis of Juego Serio, a consultancy in Buenos Aires. This produces "Eureka" moments: a perfectionist who realizes the absurdity of frustration over an imperfect Lego construction; the owner of a firm with dismal customer relations who models headquarters as a fort under siege; or an arrogant boss who depicts his staff as soldiers headed into battle. Even in the office, it seems, Lego has a part to play.
What can we know from the last paragraph about the "Eureka" moments?
选项
A、They are effective but unconscious.
B、They are the sudden realizations and discoveries in our life.
C、They are the frustrated and depressed moments in our life.
D、They are common and unsurprising in work places.
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。根据“Eureka”moments定位到最后一段。其实,冒号后面举例说明这种时刻的性质,仔细分析之后,可以发现这些例子实际上都是办公室里人们表现出来的某种顿悟,某种突然认识。故B项与此相近。该段第一句出现的effective修饰的是乐高游戏工作室,而与A项中的unconscious意义相反的词conscious修饰的则是观念,故可排除A项;C项只说到了绝望沮丧的时刻,说法片面;D项无原文依据。
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