Humor

I seldom pass on Internet humor, but found these two posts on www.psg.us and couldn't resist.  By the way, this is the website of David Osborne's consulting group, Public Strategies Group. Osborne is the leading writer on reinventing government.  Check out the website. It has a lot of good resoruces and articles about more efficient and effective governmental organizations.

Dead Horse

The tribal wisdom of the Lakota People, passed on from generation to generation, says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best "strategy" is to dismount." However, in government, education, and in corporate America (CVX?), more advanced "strategies" are often employed, such as: Buying a stronger whip. Changing riders. Appointing a committee to study the horse. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride horses. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.