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Few days back on of my friend sent me an email with following picture and I think this has to be the best illusion ever created or I have seen.

If you look at the above images from your seat in front of the computer, Mr. Angry is on the left, and Mr. Calm is on the right. Get up from your seat, and move back 5-6 feet, and WOW!! they switch places. Click on the image to view larger version. When the size of the image increases the distance to switch places also increases. Give your self a try.

Does this prove that we sometimes may not be seeing what’s actually there?

Friend: calls your parents by mr. and mrs.
Best friend: calls your parents dad and mom.

Friend: has never seen you cry
Best friend: has always had the best shoulder to cry on

Friend: never asks for anything to eat or drink
Best friend: opens the fridge and makes themself at home

Friend: picks you up when you fall
Best Friend: laughs at you and trips you again

Friend: asks you to write down your number.
Best friend: they ask you for their number (cuz they can’t remember it)

Friend: borrows your stuff for a few days then gives it back.
Best friend: has a closet full of your stuff

Friend: only knows a few things about you
Best friend: could write a biography on your life story

Friend: will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing
Best friend: will always go with you

Friend: would igonre this post after reading
Best friend: will send link to this post to me and all of their online buddies

One of my friend send me an email about how communication goes with in a company when new project proposal is under review. It is wonderful and depicts exactly what people at different level think about a new project, their company is biding for:

Programmer to Team Leader:

• We can’t do this proposed project.
• It will involve major design change and no one in our team knows the design of this legacy system.
• And above that, nobody in our company knows the language in which this application has been written.
• So even if somebody wants to work on it, they can’t. If you ask my personal opinion, the company should never take these types of projects.

Team Leader to Project Manager:

• This project will involve a design change.
• Currently, we don’t have any staff that has experience in this type of work.
• Also, the language is unfamiliar to us, so we will have to arrange for some training if we take this project.
• In my personal opinion, we are not ready to take on a project of this nature.

Project Manager to 1st Level Manager:

• This project involves a design change in the system.
• We don’t have much experience in that area.
• Also, not many people in our company are appropriately trained for it.
• In my personal opinion, we might be able to do the project but we would need more time than usual to complete it.

1st Level Manager to Senior Level Manager:

• This project involves design re-engineering.
• We have some people who have worked in this area and others who know the implementation language. So they can train other people.
• In my personal opinion we should take this project, but with caution.

Senior Level Manager to CEO:

• This project will demonstrate to the industry our capabilities in remodeling the design of a complete legacy system.
• We have all the necessary skills and people to execute this project successfully.
• Some people have already given in house training in this area to other staff members.
• In my personal opinion, we should not let this project slip by us under any circumstances.

CEO to Client:

• This is the type of project in which our company specializes. We have executed many projects of the same nature for many large clients.
• Trust me when I say that we are the most competent firm in the industry for doing this kind of work. It is my personal opinion that we can execute this project successfully and well within the given time frame.

A drunken Chinese migrant worker jumped into a panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo to touch the bear. But the asleep panda startled and bit him on the legs and he bit the animal in retaliations.

Funny isn’t it, what would you do in retaliation?

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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.