The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is saddling one. Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
However, in business other strategies with dead horses, include:
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- Buying a stronger whip.
- Changing riders.
- Say things like: “This is the way we have always ridden this horse.”
- Appointing a committee to study the horse.
- Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
- Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.
- Comparing the state of dead horses in today’s environment.
- Change the requirements, declaring that: “This horse is not dead.”
- Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
- Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
- Declaring that “No horse is too dead to beat.”
- Providing additional funding to increase the horse’s performance.
- Do a Cost Analysis study to see whether contractors can ride it cheaper.
- Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.
- Declare the horse is “better, faster and cheaper” dead.
- Form a committee to find uses for dead horses.
- Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.