> Subject: Joke > > > The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed from generation to > generation, states that when you discover that you are riding a > dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. > > However modern management best practice has developed far more > effective strategies, such as:- > > 1. Buying a stronger whip, and flogging the horse till it shows signs of > life. > > 2. Changing Riders. > > 3. Threatening the horse with termination. > > 4. Appointing a committee to study the horse. > > 5. Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses. > > 6. Hiring outside consultants to prepare an RFP on benchmarking > dead horse performance. > > 7. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. > > 8. Re-classifying the dead horse as "living, impaired". > > 9. Hiring independent contractors to ride the dead horse. > > 11. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed. > > 12. Providing additional funding for external training courses to improve > the dead horse's performance. > > 13. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would increase the > dead horse's output. > > 14. Noting 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 business than do > some other horses. > > 15. Re-writing the technical and shared competency requirements > for horses as part of the new global Equine model (gEm). > > 16. Promoting the dead horse to a Senior Management position. > > 17. Completing a strategic e-Business review to see if > disintermediation of supply chain activity will ease the > bottleneck caused by slow dead horses. > > 18. Offer the horse career counselling and the option of a transfer to a > less stressful position of equivalent status. > > 19. Warn the horse that not completing timesheets could adversely > impact its at-risk salary component. > > 20. Check with IT Support to see if the whole network is down, or > just this horse. > > _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
