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The Dead Horse Paradigm

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  1. Cheeniya

    Cheeniya Super Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    The dead horse paradigm

    The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that

    "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

    However, in government ( and many private enterprises too) more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

    1. Buying a stronger whip.

    2. Changing riders.

    3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

    4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.

    5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

    6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

    7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

    8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

    9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.

    10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

    11. 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.

    12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

    And, of course...

    13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory capacity.
     
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    Michael Palin (monty python) had famously said: " it is not dead; it is just resting".

     
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    Some people rest like dead. Some die as if they are sleeping.
     
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    Some of us who get too active in relationship threads, and then drag the beast to the "Rehab" thread, would look at the title of this thread, and would surely drop in to check whether you meant.....
    [​IMG]
     
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    Never seen a dead horse. Does it lie like this when dead?
     
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    I have seen dead horses in movies only. They don't lie with their feet straight up in the air like that.
     
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    Laks09 Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    Aha. I’m not the only person making this assumption!
     
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    Some may sneak a look, and scurry; and others would concede having sneaked a look. ;) Topics of the heart are like that only.
     
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    14? Show circus with the dead horse, invite media to live telecast. Or record with CCTV cameras, then claim the tapes are lost. :grinning:
     
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    LOL , each one of these is true specially in government / PSU
    rather creative & funny way of highlighting real issue.
     
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