Tribal wisdom of Dakota Indians: when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, your best strategy is to dismount.

However, in business and in Government, more advanced strategies are often employed such as:

• Buying a stronger (and more expensive) whip.

• Changing riders.

• Appointing a committee to study the horse.

• Arranging trips to other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.

• Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

• Reclassifying the horse as living-impaired.

• Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

• Harnessing several dead horses together to increase efficiency.

• Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horses performance.

• Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horses performance.

• Declaring that 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 some live horses.

• Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

…and of course:

• Promoting dead horse to a supervisory position.

Via Subbu

Steve Jobs is to corporate world to what Kolaveri D is to Indian facebookers. Not a day goes when you don’t come across rash of new takes and versions of the person or the song. They both share the RDF (Reality Distortion Field). Steve Jobs stories can make anything sound so profound and Kolaveri versions can levitate any thing to heights of levity. Do love them and hate them both for the same reasons.

But I am digressing. Here is an interesting anecdote on Steve Jobs which makes a very fine point very subtly. This is one of the article, where Steve Jobs has not been contexted just to add the gravitas or rigour to business/marketing arguments. Read on at http://goo.gl/35msH

If this can happen to the citizens of the most powerful country, am afraid what they would do to the rest of the world. Conjures up a lot of dystopian vision of the future world.