When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to
dismount!


Buy a heavier whip

Change riders

Threaten the horse with termination

Appoint a committee to study the horse

Arrange to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses

Appoint a project team to re-animate the dead horse

Create training to increase the rider's load share

Change the form to read: "This horse is not dead."

Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse

Harness several dead horses together for increased speed

Increase funding to help the horses performance

Do a time management study to see if lighter riders would improve
productivity

Purchase an after-market product to make dead horses run faster

Declare that a dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs better

Form a quality focus group to find profitable uses for dead horses

Rewrite the performance requirements for horses

Hire a consulting firm to perform a strategic study of best practices in
continuous improvement in utilizing dead horses

Promote the dead horse to supervisory position