The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from
generation to generation, says that when you discover
that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is
to dismount.
In modern education and expanded government, however, a
whole range of far more advanced strategies are often
employed, such as:
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 countries to see how others
ride dead horses.
6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be
included.
7. Re-classifying the dead horse as "living-impaired."
8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase
the speed.
10. Providing additional funding and/or training to
increase the dead horse's performance.
11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders
would improve the dead horse's performmance.
12. Declaring that as 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.
13. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for
all horses.
14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
15. As a last resort, sell it on Ebay.
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
