• buying a stronger whip 

• changing riders

• saying things like, "This is the way we have always ridden this horse!"

• appointing a committee to study the horse

• arranging to visit other companies to see how they ride dead horses

• increasing the standards to ride dead horses

• appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horses

• creating a training session to increase everyone's riding ability

• comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment

• passing a resolution declaring: "This horse is not dead!"

• blaming the horses' ancestry

• harnessing several dead horses for increased speed

• declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat!"

• providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance

• commissioning a study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper

• declaring the horse is better, faster and cheaper dead

• forming a quality circle to find uses for dead horses

• revisiting the performance requirements for dead horses

• saying that this horse was procured with cost as the independent variable 

• promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position

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

Dakota Indian Tribal Wisdom

1. Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

John Wooden

1. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

1. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

1. You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

Wayne Gretzky