Dead Horses
Posted on Monday, February 11th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians says when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in modern business and ministry, because of the heavy investment factors, other strategies are often tried with dead horses, including: buying a stronger whip; changing riders; threatening the horse with termination; appointing a committee to study the horse; arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses; reclassifying the dead horse as “living-impaired”; hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse; harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed; donating the dead horse to a recognized charity and deducting its full original cost; doing a time management study to see if lighter riders would improve productivity; declaring a dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs better; and promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
The KELLYGRAM 12/02
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1Jay Fontanini:Wednesday, February 13th, 2006 at 8:08 am
But what about if the dead horse is in the middle of the camp?
Do we hold our noses while swatting at the flies and yet ignore it, as though nothing happened? Do we pretend as though our failure to feed it, or perhaps even our poisoning of it, had anything to do with its death?
Do we simply remove the carcass and disinfect the area while we think no one is looking?
Do we convince ourselves and others that, while sad, the death of the horse actually presents us an exciting opportunity to get a new horse, even if that horse might be galloping in a different direction?
Just wondering.