LVEA in Action Winter 2005
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota
Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, “When you
discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.”
However, in modern business, education and government, a whole range of
far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
v Buying a stronger whip.
v Changing riders.
v Threatening the horse with termination.
v Appointing a committee to study the horse.
v Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses.
v Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
v Reclassifying the dead horse as “living impaired”.
v Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
v Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed.
v Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance.
v Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.
v 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 so other horses.
v Rewriting the expected performance requirements on all horses.
v
Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
As this new year of 2006 begins let’s all make sure we
are riding fresh horses that can cover the miles and help
us be successful in our endeavors. Excerpts
taken from Biz-e-News, PBC Inc., December 2005
FOR
YOUR FURTHER AMUSEMENT
If
you sling mud at anyone all you do is get your hands dirty and loose a lot of
ground.
Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.
A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
Words that soak into your ears are whispered….not yelled.
If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’
somebody else’s dog around.
Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.
Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.