Strategies for a Dead Horse!
Ancient wisdom says that when you
discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
However, in organizations we often try many other strategies, including
the following:
- Changing riders
- Buying a stronger whip
- Falling back on: "This is
the way we've always ridden"
- Appointing a committee to study
the horse
- Arranging a visit to other sites
to see how they ride dead horses
- Increasing the standards for riding
dead horses
- Appointing a group to revive the
dead horse
- Creating a training session to
improve riding skills
- Comparing the state of dead horses
in today's environment
- Changing the requirements so that
the horse no longer meets the standard of dead
- Hiring an external consultant
to show how a dead horse can be ridden
- Harnessing several dead horses
together to increase speed
- Increasing funding to improve
the horse's performance
- Declaring that no horse is too
dead to beat
- Doing a study to see if outsourcing
will reduce the cost of riding a dead horse
- Buying a computer program to enhance
dead horse performance
- Declaring a dead horse less costly
than a live one
- Forming a workgroup to find uses
for dead horses
- Changing performance requirements
for the horse
- Promoting the dead horse to a
supervisory position
