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The original title of this article was "Corporate Wisdom" … I wonder?

"Wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in business we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:

• Changing riders
• Increasing the standards to ride dead horses
• Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse
• Creating a training session to increase our riding ability
• Change the requirements, declaring that "This horse is not dead"
• Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed
• Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance
• Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster
• Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses
• Revise the performance requirements for horses"

I dare say one could come up with plenty of more cynical alternatives but most importantly one should understand the difference between horses that are dead, and those that are lame and should be put down!