Riding a Dead Horse

 

 

What to do when you discover you are riding a dead horse?

 

 

Dakota Indians say: dismount!

 

Modern corporate America offers the following approaches:

• Buying a stronger whip. 
• Changing riders.
• Threatening the horse with termination.
• Appointing a committee to study the horse.
• Aranging to visit other countries to see how others ride the dead horse.
• Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
• Re-classifying the dead horse as "living impaired".
• Hiring outside contractors, or consultants to ride the dead horse.
• Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed.
• Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
• Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
• Declaring that, since the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
• Re-writing the expected performance requirements for all horses.
• Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.