When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
Before you say “Duh-h-h!” note that in modern business, heavy investment factors often require that other strategies be tried, i.e.:
- Buy a heavier whip
- Change riders
- Threaten the horse with termination
- Appoint a committee to study the horse
- Arrange to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses
- Appoint a project team to re-animate the dead horse
- Create training to increase the rider’s load share
- Change the form to read: “This horse is not dead.”
- Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse
- Harness several dead horses together for increased speed
- Increase funding to help the horses performance
- Do a time management study to see if lighter riders would improve productivity
- Purchase an after-market product to make dead horses run faster
- Declare that a dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs better
- Form a quality focus group to find profitable uses for dead horses
- Rewrite the performance requirements for horses
- Hire a consulting firm to perform a strategic study of best practices in continuous improvement in utilizing dead horses
- Promote the dead horse to supervisory position
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