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.....riding a dead horse?
When you discover 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 but not limited to 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. Appointing an intervention team to re-animate the dead horse.
7. Creating a training session to increase the rider's load share.
8. Re-classifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
9. Change the form so that it reads: "This horse is not dead."
10. Hire outside jockeys to ride the dead horse.
11. Donate the dead horse to a recognized charity, thereby deducting its full original cost.
12. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
13. Do a time management study to see if the lighter riders would improve productivity.
14. Declare that a dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs better.
15. Form a quality focus group to find profitable uses for dead horses.
16. Apply for a government subsidy to retrain dead horses.