Behold the mighty Spheramid!

Seems like John was trying to.. cut some corners

Seriously, that seems like what this poster is actually promoting. Whoever made it/put it up in the office wasn’t working particularly intelligent that day
- No no you see, that was a smart manager, who wants to promote a can do attitude and later justify why his actions were justified, even though the public prosecutor had just had the office raided.

Management not providing their employees with adequate tools to do their job while also keeping them in the dark about the greater picture of their company. Ignoring their employee's problems and then blaming those who try to solve it on their own.

Do I work with you

Blue collar with forklift and trolley looking at a bunch of office dweller in suits pushing cube be like:

It's a team-building exercise that the management came up with. They might let some people go if it goes well, too!
Huh.
- Do you have a link?

Don't work hard, cut corners.

work hard, cut corners, and also salaries, and (if possible) the workforce, and-

This is unrealistic, the client would never say thank you.

In my experience they’d carry on complaining, even after an apology and saying it’ll be put right.

This client is an introvert who took the entire day off to prepare for this phone call.
- That's social anxiety, not introversion.
- Or, you know, someone who doesn't immediately resort to complaining or accusing new people of ill-intent to employ intimidation... There is a big overlap of the two groups, isn't there?

Egipcian: 𓉔𓅱𓃭𓂧𓐍𓅓𓇌𓐍𓃀𓅂𓅂𓂋 (Hold my beer)

Smart people save a lot of work, in any era and civilization. Another example of ingenuity to transport of objects of many tons with only a handful of people.
https://tube.kuylar.dev/watch?v=yvvES47OdmY
or only one person to move it
https://tube.kuylar.dev/watch?v=E5pZ7uR6v8c
Everybody has a Brain, but only few use it
Holly shot! Reminds me of a recirculating linear bearing, not what they were testing and not what they're suggesting the Egyptians did but neat parallel.

Also, even if they didn't need to specifically be cubes, he still left part of the object behind.

Does it not matter how much he brings to the end?

Is the requirement for success here solely his speed?

Why not ditch the cube altogether?

Or is it a sum of both speed and "cube mass"?

If so, how much can he shave off and still compensate by being fast?

Could you just cut a small piece of it and sprint to the end?

Is there a minimum amount you need to bring?

So many questions...

Even if what he did was legit, then cutting the cube into a cylinder would be a smarter choice. Maybe not even a full cylinder, an octagon or something like that would have roll fine and saved so much work.
- The real solution is to cut a square cube than the square needed by the end of travel, cut the large cube into a sphere and then transport it then cut the sphere into the cube with the right size.
  Or use wheels.
Also, the smartest response to the situation in the picture would be to work together.

Why waste time carving it into a perfect sphere? They could have saved a ton of time by just making a wheel instead.

Or just shape it into a cylinder.
- Aka. a wheel
Why not just leave it there and run across the finish line, since apparently it doesn't matter if you get a cube across with you?

Move fast and break things.

If the point of the work was to deliver cubes, then it wouldn't be working smart.

But since the original premise was that they were working smart, that means it doesn't matter what shape the objects are delivered in.

It all makes sense, then. The logical conclusion of this business attitude is enshittification. Cut corners to bolster quantity at the sacrifice of quality. Then they lay people off because they don't actually care about higher quantity either, just minimizing labor costs.
No. Its one of those stupid motivational posters that doesn't make sense.
If he wanted to work smart sphere guy could have simply made a cylinder. It would have taken him less time to carve and transportation would have been just as easy, if not easier than the sphere because the ground pressure is spread over a larger surface area.
He's also lost about 48% of the original product. If he had made a cylinder, he'd only have lost 21% of the original product.
If it doesn't matter how much got delivered, then just trim a corner off and deliver that. He could have put it in his pocket and simply walked over.

Hah, love all the suits. This poster is for management. They see how smart they imagine themselves being the one whittling the sphere out of a block.

But what we don’t see is the frontline employees that queried the block, loaded it, shipped it, and did all the work of carving it. But the suit takes credit for it.

So you didn’t get that the cubes simply represent anything from products to ideas?
What we don’t see here really, is the unnecessary explanation that the ideology behind this image is to “think outside the box.”
- My dude, my take was half joking. It’s a motivational poster, not Meditations… by Descartes.

intelligent*ly

The sphere looks taller than the cubes.

Perhaps it's a mouldable material like clay to be re-shaped, or hard but to be cut down to a cube on-site.

You can see the pile of chips behind him from making the sphere.
the smaller ones are further away
- But close to the waist height of the people pushing them.
  The sphere is closer to shoulder height.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMiKyfd6hA0

The other non-cube transporter:

Why work at all when you can just shatter the damn thing with a knife (?) you can also leave at the scene? Don't transport any damn thing!

Also if you push the front edge will dig into the ground, the force vector you apply has a downward component.

If the employees pulled it would lift the front edge and avoid the cubes getting stuck on obstacles.

My car was crushed into a cube, they can have that.

Is everyone purposefully missing the point in the comments?

making pyramids out of spheres does not sound very intelligent to me

But what if they're made out of spherical magnets? I've seen those magnet sphere commercials and it seems to work really well.

Should be 1015 cubes.

Should be "work intelligently" as well.

They're also leaving almost half the volume in bits on the ground.

Volume of a sphere of diameter 1 = ~0.52 Volume of a cube of 1 unit = 1 Volume of a cylinder = ~0.79

So not only are they not doing the required job. They're wasting twice as much time and material than needed to make the job easier...

And you could still build a pyramid with cylinders...