A Little Humor for a Change

The tribal wisdom of the Lakota Sioux, passed on from generation to generation, says "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."

In government, education, and corporate America, however, more advanced strategies are often employed. For example:

1. Buy a stronger whip.
2. Change riders.
3. Appoint a committee to study the horse.
4. Arrange to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lower the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassify the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harness several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Provide additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance.
10. Do a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

11. Declare 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. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for all horses.And of course the most common and my personal favorite:

13. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position