Dead Horse Strategies

1. Dead Horse Strategies Dakota Tribal Wisdom

2. Dead Horse Strategies When you discover You’re riding a dead horse The best strategy is To dismount

3. Alternative Dead-horse Strategies • Change riders • Buy a stronger whip • Get the horse a web site • Threaten the horse with termination • Ride the dead horse “outside the box” • Appoint a committee to study the horse

4. Alternative Dead-horse Strategies • Ride the dead horse “smarter”, not harder • Declare that “no horse is too dead to beat” • Buy a commercial off-the-shelf dead horse • Promote the horse to a supervisory position • Appoint a tiger team to revive the dead horse

5. Alternative Dead-horse Strategies • Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse • Reclassify the dead horse as “living-impaired” • Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses • Lower the standards so that horses can be included • Compare the state of dead horse in today’s environment

6. Alternative Dead-horse Strategies • Name the dead horse “paradigm shift” and keep riding it • Kill all the other horses, so this one will look the same • Declare the horse is “better, faster, and cheaper” dead • Create a training session to increase our riding ability • Harness several dead horses together for increased speed

7. Alternative Dead-horse Strategies • Call the dead horse a “joint venture” and let others ride it • Arrange to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses • Purchase an aftermarket product to make dead horses run faster • Do a cost analysis study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper • Provide additional funding to increase the horse’s performance

8. Alternative Dead-horse Strategies • Change the autopsy report to declare that “this horse is not dead” • Say things like “this is the way we have always ridden this horse” • Declare that “this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable” • Do a time management study to see, if the lighter riders would improve productivity