My sister sent me this, and I couldn't resist sharing!
Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.).
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WHAT TO DO WITH A DEAD HORSE
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation
to the next, says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse,
the best strategy is to dismount.
However, in modern business, because of the heavy investment factors to
be taken into consideration, often other strategies have to be 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. Change the form so that it reads: "This horse is not dead."
9. Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
10. Harness several dead horses together for increased speed.
11. Donate the dead horse to a recognized charity, thereby deducting its
full original cost.
12. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
13. Do a time management study to see if the lighter riders would
improve productivity.
14. Declare that a dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs
better.
15. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
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We've all done it before -- committed a significant amount of time and
energy to a particular project (or even a person) only to find that all
our effort was to no avail. But we find it difficult to cut our losses
and move on, so we keep trying and keep trying, pouring more and more of
ourselves into it, all the while taking away resources that could be
spent on something more profitable.
As difficult as it may be at times to do, the Dakota Indians were right
-- when you find you are riding a dead horse, the only sensible thing to
do is to dismount.
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