Hammerhead
10-07-2006, 10:29 AM
The tribal wisdom of the Lakota Sioux, passed on from generation to
generation, says: "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse,
the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more
advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging for foreign travel to see how other cultures ride dead
horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead
horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve
the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that the dead horse does not have to be fed, costs less,
has lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the
bottom line of the economy than do other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And of course...
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
generation, says: "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse,
the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more
advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging for foreign travel to see how other cultures ride dead
horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead
horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve
the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that the dead horse does not have to be fed, costs less,
has lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the
bottom line of the economy than do other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And of course...
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.