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To: mph who wrote (47364)	9/10/2003 10:31:20 AM
From: PuddleGlum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57110

Maybe we need Solomon to help us out in a few areas. This came from one of my old SI buddies who no longer posts here: The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed down from generation to generation, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to immediately dismount. In the Public Service, however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1. Change riders. 2. Buy a stronger whip. 3. Do nothing: "This is the way we have always ridden dead horses." 4. Visit other countries to see how they ride dead horses. 5. Perform a productivity study to see if lighter riders improve the dead horse's performance. 6. Hire a contractor to ride the dead horse. 7. Harness several dead horses together in an attempt to increase the speed. 8. Provide additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance. 9. Appoint a committee to study the horse and assess how dead it actually is. 10. Re-classify the dead horse as "living-impaired". 11. Develop a Strategic Plan for the management of dead horses. Intensely workshop this plan. 12. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for all dead horses. 13. Modify existing standards to include dead horses. 14. Declare that, as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overheads, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line than many other horses. 15. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.