“Top Ten Strategies for Dealing with a Dead Horse
- Buy a stronger whip.
- Change riders.
- Appoint a committee to study the horse.
- Appoint a team to revive the horse.
- Send out a memo declaring that the horse isn’t really dead.
- Hire an expensive consultant to find ‘the real problem’.
- Harness several dead horses together for increased speed and efficiency.
- Rewrite the standard definition of ‘Live Horse’. [ouch...too eerie]
- Declare the horse to be better, faster and cheaper when dead.
- Promote the dead horse to a senior management position.”
