The Dead Horse

Traditional business wisdom, passed on from one generation of management to the next, says that when you discover you’re riding dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

But in modern business (and education and government) because heavy investment factors are taken into consideration, other strategies are often 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. Reclassifying the dead horse as “living-impaired.”
8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase 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 carries lower overhead andtherefore contributes more to the bottom line then some other horses.
13. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

Microsoft & the Linux tale

Do you think Microsoft is worried about open-source Linux? If you have an opinion then read this article and if you do not have an opinion you really must read this article.

Honda

Just received this via email. Now this is the obscure thing I like. The email goes on to tell how many takes it took to get this to work but it looks like a electronic hoax to me. Anyway, it is interesting if a little far feched contraption or event.

Lockergnome

For years I have been receiving the daily and weekly reports from Lockergnome. For some reason I never stumbled across the webmasters weekly report. Man, I like it as it has some great ideas that may be simple to implement but I just never thought of it – for example, the copyright that now graces my main page at the bottom. It took me all of 5 minutes to add it. I wish my site had a hundredith the amount of traffic Lockergnome does – it is nice to be appreciated.