I was given this jokey one-pager (I am forgetting where I got it), but though it outlined various times in my working with non-profits, especially as of late, boards. Hope you find it funny as well:
"Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However in nonprofits/business we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
- Buying a stronger whip.
- Changing riders.
- Saying things like, "this is the way we have ridden horse".
- Appointing a committee to study the horse.
- Arranging to visit another site to see how they ride horses.
- Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
- Creating a training session to increase the riding environment.
- Changing the requirements to specify that "Horses shall not die".
- Comparing the fate of horses in today's environment.
- Hiring contractors to ride the dead horse.
- Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
- Declaring that "No dead horse is too dead to ride".
- Providing additional funding to increase the horses performance.
- Doing a study to see if the horse can be ridden cheaper if outsourced.
- Purchasing a product to revitalize the dead horse.
- Declaring the dead horse is "better, faster and cheaper".
- Forming a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
- Revisiting the performance requirements for horses.
- Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
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