A dead horse?

My friend George Sadowsky sent me this text the other way. I guess it might have to do with the discussions at the UN in Geneva we are at… I.e. the context for a text like this is perfect.

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Native American tribe, 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.

But in modern business because heavy investment is taken into consideration, other strategies are often tried with dead horses, including the following:

• Buying a stronger whip.

• Changing riders.

• Appointing a committee to study the horse.

• Arranging to visit other places to see how they ride dead horses.

• Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

• Reclassifying the dead horse as ’living-impaired''

• Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

• Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance.

• Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.

• Declaring that the dead horse carries lower overhead and therefore contributes more to the bottom line than some other horses.

• Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

And, as a final strategy, promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

Sound familiar?