| I love it, John. So true.
Here's another:
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
In the Administration and Management of modern education, government, and businesses, however, a whole range of far more advanced and sophisticated strategies are often employed, such as:
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 countries to see how others ride dead horses
6 Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included
7 Reclassifying 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 lower overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses who are not dead
13 Rewriting the expected performance requirements of all horses
14 Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position |