This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_911930549_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII This came from our rector at the parish here in Port Charlotte !!!!!!!!! --part0_911930549_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.sunline.net.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (rly-yc01.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.33]) by air-yc04.mail.aol.com (v51.29) with SMTP; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 17:59:42 -0500 Received: from dns.sunline.net (dns.sunline.net [207.30.56.2]) by rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id RAA00251; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 17:59:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from st.-james (node-255-64.sunline.net [207.30.255.64]) by dns.sunline.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA23389; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 17:45:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 18:01:18 -0500 From: "Michael H. Wilson" <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: Saint James Episcopal Church X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-KIT (Win95; U) To: Amy Freeman Winslow <[email protected]>, Barbara Sweeney <[email protected]>, Barbara W Robertson <"barbara.w.robertson"@Arthur.Andersen.com>, [email protected], [email protected], Brandon Schmidt <[email protected]>, "C. Daniel Wilson" <[email protected]>, Ceila White <[email protected]>, Chris Freeman Feinberg <[email protected]>, Christopher Davis <[email protected]>, David Neal Wilson <[email protected]>, Dick Freeman <[email protected]>, [email protected], Jim Ammans <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], Mariechen Smith <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], "Paul A. Auger" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], Robert Walker <[email protected]>, Royal Taylor <[email protected]>, Shannon Walker <[email protected]>, Tobie Smith <[email protected]> Subject: [Fwd: Beating a dead horse - the business perspective] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit This one is too good not to pass along. Enjoy. MHW+ -------------------- Received: from imo12.mx.aol.com (imo12.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.2]) by dns.sunline.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03537 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 20:27:09 -0500 (EST) From: [email protected] Received: from [email protected] by imo12.mx.aol.com (IMOv16.10) id VOYJa03115; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 20:39:05 +1900 (EST) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 20:39:05 EST To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Beating a dead horse - the business perspective Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 18 {I don't know the original author of this - wish I could claim the credit. Enjoy! Katherine Edman} Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in business we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following: 1. Buy a stronger whip. 2. Change riders. 3. Say things like, "This is the way we have always ridden this horse." 4. Appoint a committee to study the horse. 5. Visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses. 6. Appoint a tiger team to revive the dead horse. 7. Create a training session to increase our riding ability. 8. Compare the state of dead horses in today's environment. 9. Revisit the performance requirements for horses. 10. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse. 11. Harness several dead horses together for increased speed. 12. Declare that, "No horse is too dead to beat." 13. Provide additional funding to increase the horse's performance. 14. Do a cost analysis study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper. 15. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster. 16. Declare that the horse is "better, faster, cheaper" dead. 17. Increase the standards to ride dead horses. 18. Form a quality team to find uses for dead horses. 19. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable. 20. Promote the dead horse to management. --part0_911930549_boundary--