Ancient Tribal Wisdom

When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

In modern business, heavy investment factors often require that other strategies be tried, i.e.:

  Buy a heavier whip

  Change riders

  Threaten the horse with termination

  Appoint a committee to study the horse

  Arrange to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses

  Appoint a project team to re-animate the dead horse

  Create training to increase the rider's load share

  Change the form to read: "This horse is not dead."

  Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse

  Harness several dead horses together for increased speed

  Increase funding to help the horses performance

  Do a time management study to see if lighter riders would improve productivity

  Purchase an after-market product to make dead horses run faster

  Declare that a dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs better

  Form a quality focus group to find profitable uses for dead horses

  Rewrite the performance requirements for horses

  Hire a consulting firm to perform a strategic study of best practices in

  continuous improvement in utilizing dead horses

  Promote the dead horse to supervisory position

[Source: lionheartdesigns.com]

[Thanks to the Wells Fargo CBG newsletter.]