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The story of the dead horse
A wisdom of the Dakota Indians reads: "If you discover that you are riding a dead horse, dismount."
At work, we often try other strategies by which we act in this situation:
* We get a stronger whip
* We change the rider.
* We say: "We have always ridden this horse."
* We set up a working group to analyze the horse.
* We will visit other places to see how to get there is riding dead horses.
* We raise quality standards for the Horse of dead horses.
* We form a task force to revive the dead horse.
* We push a training session to learn to ride better.
* We make comparisons of different dead horse.
* We are changing the criteria that say when a horse is dead.
* We buy people from the outside a dead horse to ride.
* We harness several dead horses together, so they are faster.
* We declare: "No horse can be as dead as it could not beat that one yet."
* We make loose additional funding to increase the performance of the horse.
* We make a study to see if there are less expensive consultants.
* We buy something, let the dead horses run faster.
* We declare that our horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.
* We provide a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
* We are reviewing the performance requirements for dead horses.
* We conduct an independent cost center for dead horses.
* We attend expensive seminars to learn more about the habits of dead horses.
* We employ external consultants who say we need to dismiss staff to bring the dead horse cheaper to trot.
* We outsource the dead horse. The subcontractor, it can probably ride better.
* We start a new company and go with the dead horse on the stock market ....