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When Riding A Dead Horse...​

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

But in today's modern bureaucracies heavy financial considerations ofter force management to try other strategies, including:

  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.
  14. And, one final strategy: promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position and conducting a workshop to change dead horse culture.
 
I'm half tempted to dress up like Charlie Chaplin and going into the city and waving at people with my arm out straight at an angle pointing up. Or just point up at things with all my fingers at once.
 
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