Source: An unattributed tidbit from the Internet discovered
by an alert AFPLWATCH reader.
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, holds that
"When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in modern corporations, many public education systems, and both parties in the
government, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
- Buying a stronger whip.
- Changing riders.
- Threatening the horse with termination.
- Appointing a committee to study the horse.
- Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses.
- Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
- Reclassifying the dead horse as "living impaired."
- Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
- Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed.
- Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
- Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
- 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.
- Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
- Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
AFPLWATCH Comment:
At the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, every single one of these advanced strategies has been
attempted--and the horse is still dead.
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