Tribal wisdom, passed on from generation to generation, says that,
"When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy
is to dismount."
However, in government and corporate bureaucracies, more
advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how
other cultures ride horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be
included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as
living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride
the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to
increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to
increase dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter
riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. 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.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements
for all horses.
And of course bureaucrat’s favorite... .........
.....
13. Promoting the dead horse to a
supervisory position.
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