Eclipsehornplayer

A Japanese company and an American company decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.

On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat.

A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing.

So American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion. They advised that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.

To prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management
structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area
steering superintendents and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager.

They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the "Rowing Team Quality First Program", with meetings, dinners and free pens for the rower.

There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment,
extra vacation days for practices and bonuses.

The next year the Japanese won by two miles. Humiliated, the American
management laid off the rower for poor performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment.

The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and the next year's racing team was outsourced to India.

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Tootsall

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