Dead Horse Strategy

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Dead Horse Strategy

• 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. . .

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Buying a stronger whip.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Changing riders.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Saying things like, This is the way we always
  have ridden this horse.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Appointing a committee to study the horse.

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Dead Horse Strategy

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

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.

DHR Standards
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Dead Horse Strategy

• Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Creating a training session to increase our
  riding ability.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Comparing the state of dead horses in todays
  environment.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Changing the requirements declaring that, This
  horse is not dead.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Hiring contractors to ride the dead horse.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Harnessing several dead horses together for
  increased speed.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Providing additional funding to increase the
  horses performance.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Doing a CA Study to see if contractors can ride
  it cheaper.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Declaring that the horse is better, faster, and
  cheaper dead.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Revisiting the performance requirements for
  horses.

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Dead Horse Strategy

• Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory
  position.

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This is education, not business.

• Do any of business dead horse strategies sound
  familiar?