moonwindstarsky

"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 government, public education, and in corporate
America, more
> advanced strategies are often employed. These include, but are by
no
> means limited to, the following:
>
> 1. Buying a stronger whip.
>
> 2. Changing riders.
>
> 3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
>
> 4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures
ride
> dead horses.
>
> 5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
>
> 6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
>
> 7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
>
> 8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
>
> 9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead
horse's
> performance.
>
> 10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would
improve
> the dead horse's performance.
>
> 11. 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.
>
> 12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
>
> And, last but certainly not least?
>
> 13. Promoting the dead horse to a management position. "