Lakota Sioux 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. Changing to another dead horse.
4. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."
5. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
6. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
7. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.
9. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
10. Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.
11. Revisiting the performance requirements for horses to determine if dead horses might not be acceptable for the immediate needs after all.
12. Changing the definition of "dead" so that the horse does not qualify under it, making the horse not technically "dead".
13. Hiring contractors to ride the dead horse.
14. Harnessing several dead horses together in series (or parallel) for increased speed or power.
15. Hiring or appointing a team of expert consulting riders to see if a highly focused team approach can get the dead horse to work better.
16. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
17. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
18. Doing a CA Study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
19. Purchasing add on products to make dead horses run faster.
20. Declaring that the horse is actually "more cost effective" if it's dead.
21. Forming a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
22. Revisiting the performance requirements for horses.
23. Saying that the horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
24. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
No comments:
Post a Comment