Dead Horse/Big Business

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Stan Moyer stan.moyer@twa.com
Not to make light of the dead horse situation, but with all the talk of
alphabet soup organizations, big business and dead horses, thought this
may be appropiate...

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 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 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.