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Different ways to beat a dead horse
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians passed on from generation to generation says, "When you discover you are riding a dead horse, The best strategy is to dismount."
However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more advanced strategies are often employed, including:
- Buying a stronger whip.
- Changing riders.
- Appointing a committee to study the horse.
- Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride horses.
- Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
- Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
- Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
- Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
- Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
- Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
- 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.
- Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
- Denying that the dead horse is dead, but only asleep.
- Promoting the dead horse to a management position.