The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation to the next, says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
However, in modern business, because of the heavy investment factors to be taken into
consideration, often other strategies have to be tried with dead horses, including the
following:
1. 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 sites to see how they ride dead horses.
6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
7. Appointing an intervention team to reanimate the dead horse.
8. Creating a training session to increase the riders load share.
9. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
10. Change the form so that it reads: “This horse is not dead.”
11. Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
12. Harness several dead horses together for increased speed.
13. Donate the dead horse to a recognized charity, thereby deducting its full original
cost.
14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse’s performance.
15. Do a time management study to see if the lighter riders would improve productivity.
16. Purchase an after-market product to make dead horses run faster.
17. Declare that a dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs better.
18. Form a quality focus group to find profitable uses for dead horses.
19. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for horses.
20. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
Example is leadership. - Albert Schweitzer
I should like to be a horse. - Queen Elizabeth II
Earn your leadership every day. - Michael Jordan
Act like a horse. Be dumb. Just run. - Unknown
Use a little of your horse's sense. - Archie Bunker
Leadership is an ever-evolving position. - Mike Krzyzewski
A team is a reflection of its leadership. - Unknown
What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama
Life looks better from the back of a horse. - Unknown
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. - Elizabeth Kenny
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. - Dwight D Eisenhower
Marry me and I'll never look at another horse! - Groucho Marx
Management is nothing more than motivating people. - Lee Iacocca
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. - Fletcher Knebel
Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. - Groucho Marx
Leading your family is a lot tougher than basketball. - Giannis Antetokounmpo
This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother. - Ted Walsh
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F Kennedy
A rabbit's foot is a poor substitute for horse sense. - Unknown
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson
The only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it. - John Cleese
Germlish: Training done using a mixture of English & German - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight, and bull-strong. - Unknown
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. - English Proverb
The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one. - Relient K
Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. - John Madden
Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer. - Leo Rosten
The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis. - Brian Tracy
Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership. - James Humes
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. - Ambrose Bierce
Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin
Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training. - Anna Freud
A lame cat is better than a swift horse when rats infest the palace. - Chinese Proverb
Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw
It's too late to close the stable door after the horse has bolted. - French Proverb
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best. - Chester W Mimitz
The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example. - John Wooden
The beginning of leadership is a battle for the hearts and minds of men. - Bernard L Montgomery
To err is human. To blame it on somebody else shows management potential. - Unknown
The best time management strategy: don't find the time, find the why. - Chris Guillebeau
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. - Harold S Geneen
Leadership is not something you do to people; it is something you do for people. - Ken Blanchard
You do not lead by hitting people over the head; that is assault, not leadership. - Dwight D Eisenhower
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost
You can only go as high on the leadership ladder as your character will allow you. - John C Maxwell
Positive leadership uplifts everyone. All it takes is you: the best version of you. - Unknown
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. - A.J. Liebling
Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live. - Henny Youngman
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping. - Thomas Hood
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. - Jacqueline Kennedy
A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character. - Tesio
The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. - Colin Powell
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John Rockefeller
One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. - Danny McGoorty
Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win. - Tom Fleming
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. - Woody Allen
Leadership is all about influence and everything rises and falls on leadership... everything. - John C Maxwell
The heart of good leadership is sacrifice. If you want to grow an organization - grow leaders. - John C Maxwell
An Irishman after trying American beer for the first time: "Put it back in the horse!" - Unknown
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is differences of opinion that make horse races. - Mark Twain
Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best. - Unknown
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. - Robert Frost
The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men. - Dwight D Eisenhower
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them. - Carlos Ghosn
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow
Leaders come in two flavors: expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both. - Barbara Corcoran
Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well. - Clayton Christensen
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' - Elon Musk
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. - Peter F Drucker
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. - Stephen Covey
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line. - Elvis Presley
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry
I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. - James Beard
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. - James L Fisher
The best leaders identify what promises they are being held to, manage expectations, and honor those promises. - Bob Anderson
It's because you're scared that there's danger.
But could she manage not to be scared anymore? - Johanna Verweerd
The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. - Scott Adams
Basketball develops individuality, initiative, and leadership. Now get out there and do exactly what I tell you to. - Dick Vitale
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. - John Buchan
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie
We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. - Samuel Johnson
Do you ever get halfway through eating a horse and go, 'You know, I'm not as hungry as I thought I was'? - Tim Vinel
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. - Unknown
Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation. - Gerald Chertavian
When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter. - Roy Rogers
We will never have to tell our horse that we are sad, happy, confident, angry or relaxed. He already knows - long before we do. - Marjike de Jong
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. - Oscar Wilde
A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. - Sean Astin
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. - Agha Hasan Abedi
There's only one thing worse than training your staff and having them leave, and that's not training them and having them stay. - Zig Ziglar
Finance functions lose the potential to steer their organizations to success when they defer performance management to other functions. - Jack Alexander
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. - Stephen Covey
Leadership development is not an 'event.' It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development. - Linda F Thornton
I you can make any leading religion of the world look like complete nonsense, you can be sure of only one thing: you haven't understood it. - Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. - Archibald Putt
Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi
I should like to be a horse. - Queen Elizabeth II
Earn your leadership every day. - Michael Jordan
Act like a horse. Be dumb. Just run. - Unknown
Use a little of your horse's sense. - Archie Bunker
Leadership is an ever-evolving position. - Mike Krzyzewski
A team is a reflection of its leadership. - Unknown
What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama
Life looks better from the back of a horse. - Unknown
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. - Elizabeth Kenny
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. - Dwight D Eisenhower
Marry me and I'll never look at another horse! - Groucho Marx
Management is nothing more than motivating people. - Lee Iacocca
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. - Fletcher Knebel
Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. - Groucho Marx
Leading your family is a lot tougher than basketball. - Giannis Antetokounmpo
This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother. - Ted Walsh
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F Kennedy
A rabbit's foot is a poor substitute for horse sense. - Unknown
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson
The only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it. - John Cleese
Germlish: Training done using a mixture of English & German - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight, and bull-strong. - Unknown
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. - English Proverb
The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one. - Relient K
Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. - John Madden
Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer. - Leo Rosten
The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis. - Brian Tracy
Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership. - James Humes
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. - Ambrose Bierce
Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin
Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training. - Anna Freud
A lame cat is better than a swift horse when rats infest the palace. - Chinese Proverb
Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw
It's too late to close the stable door after the horse has bolted. - French Proverb
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best. - Chester W Mimitz
The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example. - John Wooden
The beginning of leadership is a battle for the hearts and minds of men. - Bernard L Montgomery
To err is human. To blame it on somebody else shows management potential. - Unknown
The best time management strategy: don't find the time, find the why. - Chris Guillebeau
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. - Harold S Geneen
Leadership is not something you do to people; it is something you do for people. - Ken Blanchard
You do not lead by hitting people over the head; that is assault, not leadership. - Dwight D Eisenhower
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost
You can only go as high on the leadership ladder as your character will allow you. - John C Maxwell
Positive leadership uplifts everyone. All it takes is you: the best version of you. - Unknown
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. - A.J. Liebling
Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live. - Henny Youngman
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping. - Thomas Hood
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. - Jacqueline Kennedy
A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character. - Tesio
The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. - Colin Powell
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John Rockefeller
One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. - Danny McGoorty
Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win. - Tom Fleming
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. - Woody Allen
Leadership is all about influence and everything rises and falls on leadership... everything. - John C Maxwell
The heart of good leadership is sacrifice. If you want to grow an organization - grow leaders. - John C Maxwell
An Irishman after trying American beer for the first time: "Put it back in the horse!" - Unknown
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is differences of opinion that make horse races. - Mark Twain
Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best. - Unknown
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. - Robert Frost
The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men. - Dwight D Eisenhower
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them. - Carlos Ghosn
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow
Leaders come in two flavors: expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both. - Barbara Corcoran
Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well. - Clayton Christensen
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' - Elon Musk
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. - Peter F Drucker
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. - Stephen Covey
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line. - Elvis Presley
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry
I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. - James Beard
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. - James L Fisher
The best leaders identify what promises they are being held to, manage expectations, and honor those promises. - Bob Anderson
It's because you're scared that there's danger.
But could she manage not to be scared anymore? - Johanna Verweerd
The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. - Scott Adams
Basketball develops individuality, initiative, and leadership. Now get out there and do exactly what I tell you to. - Dick Vitale
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. - John Buchan
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie
We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. - Samuel Johnson
Do you ever get halfway through eating a horse and go, 'You know, I'm not as hungry as I thought I was'? - Tim Vinel
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. - Unknown
Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation. - Gerald Chertavian
When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter. - Roy Rogers
We will never have to tell our horse that we are sad, happy, confident, angry or relaxed. He already knows - long before we do. - Marjike de Jong
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. - Oscar Wilde
A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. - Sean Astin
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. - Agha Hasan Abedi
There's only one thing worse than training your staff and having them leave, and that's not training them and having them stay. - Zig Ziglar
Finance functions lose the potential to steer their organizations to success when they defer performance management to other functions. - Jack Alexander
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. - Stephen Covey
Leadership development is not an 'event.' It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development. - Linda F Thornton
I you can make any leading religion of the world look like complete nonsense, you can be sure of only one thing: you haven't understood it. - Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. - Archibald Putt
Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi
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Cherokee Legend
Idle No More
Patriotic Fund
Where White Man Went Wrong
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