Happy Friday
Parabeagle
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Okay, today is my Friday and I've been far too long on this thing, but I wanted to share this with you guys. I thought it was funny and I'm sure we can all relate to at least a little bit of it.
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 when confronted with dead horses, including the following:
Buying a stronger whip.
Changing riders.
Saying things like, "This is the way we've always ridden this horse."
Appointing a committee to study the horse.
Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
Creating a training session to increase riding ability.
Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.
Change the requirements in such a way that the horse is no longer considered dead.
Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
Doing a cost analysis to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
Purchase a product tomake dead horses run faster.
Declare that the horse is "better, faster, cheaper" dead.
Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
Revisit the performance requirements for dead horses.
Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
Promote the dead horse to a management position.
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 when confronted with dead horses, including the following:
Buying a stronger whip.
Changing riders.
Saying things like, "This is the way we've always ridden this horse."
Appointing a committee to study the horse.
Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
Creating a training session to increase riding ability.
Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.
Change the requirements in such a way that the horse is no longer considered dead.
Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
Doing a cost analysis to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
Purchase a product tomake dead horses run faster.
Declare that the horse is "better, faster, cheaper" dead.
Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
Revisit the performance requirements for dead horses.
Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
Promote the dead horse to a management position.
Comments
Hire an expensive consultant to study the horse and write a report that everyone will read once, and then file away forever.
Say the horse isn't really dead, just resting.