Friday, August 14, 2009

Strategy - how government approaches a problem

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, 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 more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead Horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead Horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. 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 live horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

And, of course...
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

Contributed by A Tan

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

Harnessing several candidates together in GRCs to increase chances of 50% walkovers and winning 98% of seats.

How's that for election strategy? But not for the opposition! Haha!

Anonymous said...

In ntuc it is giving the dead horse a new name, a new title; the building a new facade; a new office furnishing ,; the products with fancifool names to hide a rotten product.
The agents are giving tiltes like finanical consultants but they do anyhting except consulting. The new titles cannot fool and con the discerning and savvy consumers except the olf folks , the Ak Sohs and aunties. They are still product pushers and peddlers.
The new facade does not hide the fact that the company is not giving good value as in the past.The increase in revenue does not mean that it is doing better.It means the greedy agents are incentivised more so they psuhed harder and it also deos not mean it is profitable. It is only howlian to hoodwink the public.Creative Technology found early that a substantial market
share doesn't mean profitable . What it means is it is squandering shareholders' and policyholders' money. A dead horse is a dead horse. To dismount it and acquire a new horse is the right thing to do.More expensive chairs is dressing it up and it is still a chair. Dressing it up and pretend is even worse than calling it a donkey.
This is happening in the so called new ntuc. A new broom that sweeps clean now. Wait till the bristles get worn out and let us see whether he can last 35 years like his predeccesor.

Anonymous said...

There is another strategy. Hire a foreign rider and pay him an obscene salary so he will tell the whole world it is a damn good horse. Then when eventually it collapses, the foreign rider will disappear and can claim it is an honest mistake and lets move on.
One more, pay millions of dollars to the horsemen and the horses will all come alive.

Anonymous said...

The ntuc rider is a foreign rider and after working the horse until it dies he then leave and blame it on the lame horse. A poor rider blame on the poor horse. he will move on to his new trade

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