Work for a company that's going nowhere?...

This may seem familiar to anyone who's ever worked for a large company or corporation, especially one that changes things on a daily basis trying to "improve the process"...

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed down from generation to generation, says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
In modern corporate America however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed such as:

1) Buying a bigger whip

2) Changing riders

3) Threatening the horse with termination

4) Appointing a committee to study the horse

5) Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses

6) Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included

7) Re-classifying the dead horse as "living-impaired"

8) Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse

9) Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed

10)Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance

11) Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance

12) Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries less overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line than do some other horses.

13) Re-writing the expected performance requirements for all horses.

14) Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

SEVERAL of these practices have been employed by the company I work for... yet the dead horses are still being ridden into the ground...