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To: Miles Rhyne Hoffman, CFA who wrote (5321)	4/17/1998 5:59:00 PM
From: FILFOTO	Respond to of 62549

> Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a > dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. > > In business, however, it seems that we often try other strategies > with dead horses, including the following: > > 1. Buying a stronger whip. > 2. Changing riders. > 3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this > horse." > 4. Appointing a committee to study the horse. > 5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses. > 6. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses. > 7. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse. > 8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability. > 9. Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment. > 10. Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead." > 11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse. > 12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed. > 13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat." > 14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance. > 15. Do a CA Study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper. > 16. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster. > 17. Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead. > 18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses. > 19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses. > 20. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable. > 21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.