Overridden topics

[rides2far@juno.com (Angela C. McGhee)]

Hey everybody, got from a riding buddy today.  It may not be talking
about our "horses", but It could sum up some of our treatment of topics!

Angie McGhee and Kaboot (alive and well)

> Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead
> horse, the best strategy is to dismount.  However, in business we
> often try
> other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
>  
>  1.  Buying a stronger whip.
>  2.  Changing riders.
>  3.  Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this
> horse."
>  4.  Appointing a committee to study the horse.
>  5.  Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
>  6.  Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
>  7.  Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
>  8.  Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.
>  9.  Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.
> 10. Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead."
> 11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
> 12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
> 13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
> 14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
> 15. Do a CA Study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
> 16. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.
> 17. Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.
> 18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
> 19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.
> 20. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
> 21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
> 
> 
> 

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