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Book Review InformationHow Would-be You Come Mount Fuji? - A Book Summary
by:
Regine Azurin
This article is based on the following book:
How Would-be You Come Mount Fuji?
"How the World’s Smartest Companies Choice the Most Creative Thinkers"
By William Poundstone
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 2004
ISBN 0-316-77849-4
276 pages
Nowadays, job applicants are no longer astonied once
they are asked the question: “Why are hole
covers round instead of square?” during a job interview. Puzzle-interviews have been emulated by many
fortune 500 companies from Microsoft. Questions such as the above seek to separate the most creative thinkers from the
merely talented.
Logic puzzles, riddles, theoretic questions and trick questions have long been used in computer-industry interviews. These are best-known as
“impossible questions” and are believed to measure the intelligence,
resourcefulness or “outside-the-box thinking” necessary to survive in
today’s really competitive business environment.
Today, these impossible questions are as well being used, not simply in
computer-industry interviews, but in all but every line of business such as law firms, banks, consulting firms, insurance companies, the media and the armed forces.
The strangest thing simply about these impossible questions is that no one
knows the answer – not even as the person who is asking. Still, folk are being hired or not hired based on how well they answer the questions.
With the use of puzzles in the hiring process, companies try to weed out those who think on their feet and those who do not. All that matters is logic, imagination and problem-solving ability.
Puzzle interviews makes much than test an individual’s I.Q. It is aforementioned to measure bandwidth, inventiveness, creative problem-solving ability
and outside-the-box thinking. Companies who use logic puzzles believe that they area better indicator of geographic point success than different intelligence tests.
What happens once
you are featured with a puzzle interview? You can use several of the below tips and techniques to outsmart the interviewer:
1. 1st decide what kind of answer is expected (monologue or dialogue).
Logic puzzles commonly calls for a monologue. Design answers have single answers. Nice answers show awareness that trade-offs exist.
2. Some you think of 1st is wrong. With puzzles and riddles, the 1st obvious answer that pops into mind is not commonly the right answer.
3. Forget you ever knowing calculus.
4. Big complex
questions commonly have simple answers.
5. Simple questions often demand complex
answers.
6. “Perfectly logical beings” are not like you and me.
7. Once
you hit a brick wall, try to list the assumptions you are making.
See what happens once
you reject each of these assumptions in succession.
8. Once
crucial information is missing in a logic puzzle, lay out the possible scenarios. You’ll all but always find that you don’t need the
missing information to solve the problem.
9. Wherever
possible, give a nice answer that the asker has ne'er
detected
before.
About the Author:
William Poundstone is the author of nine books, including Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos, Prisoner's Dilemma, Labyrinths of Reason, and the
popular Big Private secrets series, which elysian two television network specials. He has written for Esquire, Harper's, The Economist, and the New House of york Times Book Review, and his science writing has been appointed double
for the Newspaper publisher Prize. He lives in Los Angeles.
By: Regine P. Azurin
Regine Azurin is the President of BusinessSummaries.com, a institution that provides business book summaries of the latest bestsellers for busy executives and entrepreneurs.
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