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June 04, 2004
What to do when you discover you are riding a dead horse ...
A friend sent me this and although I have seen it before, I enjoyed it again and so at risk of boring you, gentle reader - I am sharing it.
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."
However, in today's government and in big corporations, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 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 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.
And, of course, my all time favorite...........
Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
Posted by The Gray Monk at June 4, 2004 09:26 PM