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Say you’re riding a horse. Sadly, the horse dies. Common sense dictates that you dismount it, does it not? Sadly, this is not what happens. Thus the dead horse theory. The tribal wisdom of the plain Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount it. However, throughout history, and still happening now, we see business, education and government take more advanced strategies such as:
- Buying a stronger whip.
2.Changing riders.
3.Threatening the horse with termination.
4.Appointing a committee to study the horse.
5.Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses. (Kenyan MCAs eh, Kenyan MCAs ah!)
6.Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
7.Re-classifying the dead horse as ‘living impaired’.
8.Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
9.Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed.
10.Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance.
11.Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.
12.Declaring that the dead horse doesn’t have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower over head, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
13.Re-writing the expected performance requirements for all horses.
14.Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position of hiring another horse.
All this, and we still ask why violence, misogyny, discrimination, corruption, stealing and lack of professionalism still exists!
C+V