Strategies people use when they discover they are riding a dead horse (rather than getting off and finding another horse).
They try the following:
• Buying a stronger whip
• Changing riders
• Saying things like, “This is the way we’ve always ridden this horse”
• Appointing a committee to study the horse
• Arranging a visit to other sites to see how they ride horses
• Changing the by-laws to specify that “horses shall not die”
• Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed
• Declaring that “no horse is too dead to ride”
• Providing additional funding to increase the horse’s performance
• Purchasing a product to revitalize the dead horse
• Forming a quality circle to find uses for dead horses
• Revisiting the performance requirement for horses
• Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position
