Riding a Dead Horse
Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In the military planning world, however, it seems that we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
Buying a stronger whip. *
Changing riders.
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Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."
* Appointing a committee to study the horse.
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Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses. *
Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
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Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse. *
Creating a training session to increase our riding ability
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Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment. *
Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead."
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Hire contractors to ride the dead horse. *
Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
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Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat." *
Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
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Do a cost analysis study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper. *
Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.
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Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead. *
Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
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Revisit the performance requirements for horses. *
Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
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Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
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