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In a message dated 6/19/99 9:13:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, GKaub69965 
writes:

<< On Dead Horses
 
 
 The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation to
 the next, says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best
 strategy is to dismount.
 
 However, in modern business, because of the heavy investment factors to be
 taken into consideration, often other strategies have to be tried with dead
 horses, including, but not limited to, the following:
 
 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 sites to see how they ride dead horses.
 
 6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
 
 7. Appointing an intervention team to reanimate the dead horse.
 
 8.. Creating a training session to increase the rider's load share.
 
 9. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
 
 10. Change the form so that it reads: "This horse is not dead."
 
 11. Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
 
 12. Harness several dead horses together for increased speed.
 
 13. Donate the dead horse to a recognized charity, thereby deducting its
 full original cost.
 
 14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
 
 15. Do a time management study to see if the lighter riders would improve
 productivity.
 
 16. Purchase an after-market product to make dead horses run faster.
 
 17. Declare that a dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs
 better.
 
 18. Form a quality focus group to find profitable uses for dead horses.
 
 19. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for horses.
 
 20. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.

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On Dead Horses


The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation to
the next, says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best
strategy is to dismount.

However, in modern business, because of the heavy investment factors to be
taken into consideration, often other strategies have to be tried with dead
horses, including, but not limited to, the following:

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 sites to see how they ride dead horses.

6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

7. Appointing an intervention team to reanimate the dead horse.

8.. Creating a training session to increase the rider's load share.

9. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

10. Change the form so that it reads: "This horse is not dead."

11. Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

12. Harness several dead horses together for increased speed.

13. Donate the dead horse to a recognized charity, thereby deducting its
full original cost.

14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.

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

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

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

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

19. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for horses.

20. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
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