slowandsteady
11-30-06, 12:54 PM
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation
> to the next, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead
> horse, the best strategy is to dismount. But in modern business (and
> education and government) because heavy investment factors are taken
> into consideration, other strategies are often tried with dead horses,
> including the following:
>
> 1. Buying a stronger whip.
>
> 2. Changing riders.
>
> 3. Threatening the horse with termination.
>
> 4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
>
> 5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
>
> 6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
>
> 7. Reclassifying the dead horse as "living-impaired."
>
> 8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
>
> 9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
>
> 10. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead
> horse's performance.
>
> 11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve
> the dead horse's performance.
>
> 12. Declaring that the dead horse carries lower overhead and therefore
> contributes more to the bottom line than some other horses.
>
> 13. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
>
> And, as a final strategy:
> 14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position and conducting a
> workshop to change dead horse culture.
> to the next, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead
> horse, the best strategy is to dismount. But in modern business (and
> education and government) because heavy investment factors are taken
> into consideration, other strategies are often tried with dead horses,
> including the following:
>
> 1. Buying a stronger whip.
>
> 2. Changing riders.
>
> 3. Threatening the horse with termination.
>
> 4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
>
> 5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
>
> 6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
>
> 7. Reclassifying the dead horse as "living-impaired."
>
> 8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
>
> 9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
>
> 10. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead
> horse's performance.
>
> 11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve
> the dead horse's performance.
>
> 12. Declaring that the dead horse carries lower overhead and therefore
> contributes more to the bottom line than some other horses.
>
> 13. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
>
> And, as a final strategy:
> 14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position and conducting a
> workshop to change dead horse culture.