Jonathan
Dakota Indian tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a colloquial dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in modern organizations, we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
- Buying a stronger whip
- Changing riders
- Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse"
- Appointing a committee to study the horse
- Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses
- Increasing the standards to ride dead horses
- Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse
- Creating a training session to increase our riding ability
- Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment
- Passing a resolution declaring: "This horse is not dead"
- Blaming the horses' ancestry
- Harnessing several dead horses for increased speed
- Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat"
- Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance
- Do a study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper
- Declare the horse is better, faster, and cheaper dead
- Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses
- Revisit the performance requirements for dead horses
- Say that this horse was procured with cost as the independent variable
- Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position
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