The tribal wisdom of the Indians says” When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, it's best to dismount it immediately. ”
However, in modern business, education and government, many far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as.
- Buying a stronger WIP.
- Changing riders.
- Threatening the horse with termination.
- Appointing a committee to study the horse.
- Arranging a visit to other countries, to study how they ride dead horses.
- Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
- Reclassifying the dead horse as the ”living impaired.”
- Harnessing several dead horses to increase speed.
- Hiring outside contractors to ride the horse.
- Providing additional funding and training to increase the dead horse performance.
- Promoting the dead horse to a supervisor position for hiring another horse.
- Re-writing the expected performance for all horses.
