Indian tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead
horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
In business and politics, however, it seems that often they try other
strategies with dead horses, including the following. . .

1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."
4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
6. Decreasing the standards to ride dead horses.
7. Appointing a management team to revive the dead horse.
8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.
9. Issuing a favorable press release about the state of dead horses in
today's environment.
10. Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead."
11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to win."
14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
15. Do a study to see if Mexican ' wet backs ' can ride it cheaper.
16. Purchase several products to make dead horses run faster.
17. Declare your horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.
18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses in general.
20. Announce that this horse was procured with a cost adjustment as an
independent variable....and get a CPA firm to 'sign off ' on that.
21. Promote the dead horse to an Assistant V.P position.
22. Hire an investment banking firm to divest of the dead horse.
23. Apply for a government EPA subsidy to pay for the disposal of the dead
horse. 24. Offer the horse on Ebay.