Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in business we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."
4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
6. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
7. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.
9. Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.
10. Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead."
11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
15. Do a Cost Analysis Study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
16. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.
17. Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.
18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.
20. Declare this horse was procured with another department's budget.
21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
22. Add more riders to the dead horse.
23. Provide status reports daily on the dead horse.
24. Change the ratio of hay and oats in the feedbag.
25. Provide more managers / supervisors per dead horse.
26. Provide an incentive bonus for the Jockey.
27. Open a ticket to upgrade the dead horse.
28. "Reboot" the dead horse.
29. Terminate all live horses to redefine productivity.
30. Schedule a meeting with the dead horse to discuss his productivity problems.
31. Rename the horse.
32. Hire a consultant to give their opinion on dead horses.
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