Guidelines for Beating a Dead Horse

[BewareofNick]

I make it my own policy to not respond more than 3 or 4 times to a thread just because I don't want to beat a dead horse on the same subject...some just like to see themselves write and speak on line I guess...regardless of whether or not they are contributing something beneficial to the thread.

 

 

Gabe

 

Since Gabe brought this up in another thread, I thought I woudl provide him with a clear set of guidelines:

 

Beating a Dead Horse

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in business we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:

 

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Say things like, "This is the way we have always ridden this horse."

4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.

6. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.

7. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.

8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.

9. Comparing the state of dead horses in todays environment.

10. Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead."

11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.

12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.

13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."

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

15. Do a Cost Analysis study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.

16. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.

17. Declare 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.

[Guest cp8036]

Hummmm...

 

Sounds like my company. But, add to it:

 

- Repremand the employee for his attitude problem when he called the horse dead. Send to a team-building skill workshop that shows how to get along with live and dead horses.

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

>Hummmm...

>

>Sounds like my company. But, add to it:

>

>- Repremand the employee for his attitude problem when he

>called the horse dead. Send to a team-building skill

>workshop that shows how to get along with live and dead

>horses.

 

Hmmm.... now this REALLY sounds like my company!!!!!

[Guest dstud4hire]

In fact...isn't the Dead Horse policy standard practice in Corporate America???