The Tribal Wisdom of the Dakota Indians

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This was forwarded to me at work. Its funny, but what is funnier is all the people who were cc'd on it. Basically it came from the Vice President, who sent it to the CEO, and all the other top Executives at my company. They all sent it to their underlings, and somehow it made it down to 'scrub' level with me receiving it. Now I don't feel so bad forwarding jokes around the office, since the big guys upstairs do it

 

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians passed on from one generation to the next, says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

 

However, in modern business and government, because of the heavy investment factors to be taken into consideration, often other strategies have to be tried with dead horses, including 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. Lowering the standards, so that dead horses can be included

7. Appointing an intervention team to reanimate the dead horse

8. Creating a training session to increase the riders load share

9. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired

10. Change the form so that it reads: “This horse is not dead”

11. Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse

12. Harness several dead horses together for increased speed

13. Donate the dead horse to a recognized charity, thereby deducting its full original cost

14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse’s performance

15. Do a time management study to see if lighter riders would improve productivity

16. Purchase an after-market product to make dead horses faster

17. Declare that the dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs better

18. Form a quality focus group to find profitable uses for dead horses

19. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for horses

20. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position