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[ Thursday, January 16, 2003 ]

 

Humor: On Riding a Dead Horse


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. In modern corporate America and government,

however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are

often employed, such as:



1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Threatening the horse with termination.

4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

5. Sending a Congressional delegation to see how other

countries ride dead horses.

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

7. Reclassifying the dead horse as 'living impaired.'

8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase

the speed.

10. Providing additional funding and/or training to

increase the dead horse's performance.

11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders

would improve the dead horse's performance.

12. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed,

it is less costly and therefore contributes substantially

more to the bottom line than do some other horses.

13. Rewriting the minimum performance requirements for all horses.

14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

15. Keep reassessing the horse until it rises from the dead.

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