Sounds like politics... ________________________________
From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us on behalf of Richardson,Tony
Sent: Wed 3/18/2009 6:13 PM
To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us
Subject: RE: [info-tech] General Observation
Sounds just like a school district.
Tony Richardson,
Technology Coordinator
Humboldt Community School District
trichard...@humboldt.k12.ia.us
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From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us on behalf of Lance Lennon
Sent: Wed 3/18/2009 3:30 PM
To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us
Subject: [info-tech] General Observation
This really sounded familiar to me.
Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse,
the best strategy is to dismount. However, in IT discussions 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.
--
"Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought
that the public were beginning to understand the old ones."
~Mike Barfield
--
Lance L. Lennon
District Technology Director
Eagle Grove Community School District
515-448-4749
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