Kakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However in the goverment we often try other strategies with dead horses, here are the top 26.

1.Buy a stronger whip
2.Change riders
3.Say things like. "This is the way we always hve ridden this horse"
4.Appoint a committee to study the horse
5.Arrange to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses
6.Rewrite the standards for dead horse performance
7.Appoint a "Tiger team" to revive the dead horse
8.Create a training session to increase riding ability
9.Compare the state of dead horses in today's environment
10.Change the requirements declaring that "this horse is not dead"
11.Hire contractors to ride the dead horse
12.Harness several dead horses together to increase speed and pulling power
13.Declare that "No horse is to dead to beat"
14.Provide additional incentive funding to increase the horse's performance
15.Do a CA study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper
16.Purchase a software product to make dead horses run faster
17.Declare that the horse is "better, faster, and cheaper" dead
18.Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
19.Revisit the performance requirements for horses
20. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable
21.Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position
22.Shorten the track
23.Establish benchmarks for industry dead horse leaders
24.Gather other dead animals and announce a diversity program
25.Put together a spiffy PowerPoint presentation to get planners to double the dead horse R&D budget
26.Get the horse a web site.


Murphy was an optimist

Thank you. I liked that.We do have a tendence to preach to choir however.So what?! Feels good to say it + WE like to hear it.