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;

01. Buying a stronger whip.

02. Changing riders.

03. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."

04. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

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

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

07. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.

08. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

09. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.

10. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.

11. Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.

12. Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead."

13. Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

14. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.

15. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."

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

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

18. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.

19. 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.

20. Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.

21. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.

22. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for all horses.

23. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.

24. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.

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