My favorite is #14.....
Subject: Dead Horse
The Legend:
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation
to the next, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead
horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
However, in modern business, because of the heavy investment factors
to be taken into consideration, often other strategies have to be tried
with dead horses, including the following:
1.Buying a stronger whip.
2.Changing riders.
3.Threatening the horse with termination.
4.Appointing a committee to study the horse.
5.Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
6.Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
7.Reclassifying the dead horse as "living-impaired."
8.Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
9.Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
10.Providing additional funding to increase the dead horse's
performance.
11.Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve
the dead horse's performance.
12.Declaring that the dead horse carries lower overhead and
therefore
performs better than some other horses.
13.Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
14.Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position
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