Dead Horses and Nags

 

The Dakota Indians have a saying, passed on from generation to generation; when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.  However some organisations, dare I say some people, often employ more advanced strategies, such as:

 

1. Buy a stronger whip
2. Change riders
3. Appoint a committee to study the horse
4. Lower the standards to include dead horses
5. Reclassify the horse as “living impaired”
6. Hire outside contractors to ride the horse
7. Harness several dead horses together to increase the speed
8. Rewrite expected performance requirements for all horses
9. Promote the dead horse to management
10. Declare that, as the horse no longer needs feeding, it is less costly, carries lower overheads, and therefore contributes substantial more to the bottom line than other horses!