how to ride a dead horse

1. Common advice from This seems simple
This seems simple
Common advice from
knowledgeable horse enough, yet in education
enough, yet in education
knowledgeable horse
trainers is that most we don't always follow
we don't always follow
trainers is that most
people have the sense good advice. Instead we
good advice. Instead we
people have the sense
to dismount when they sometimes choose from
sometimes choose from
to dismount when they
discover they are riding an array of other
an array of other
discover they are riding
a dead horse... alternatives, which
alternatives, which
a dead horse...
include:
include:
In education, when riding a dead horse we:
When riding Try using a new
bit or bridle
a dead horse
we...
In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Tighten the cinch Buy a stronger
whip
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2. In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Say things like Set up a committee
"This is the way we to study the horse
always have ridden
this horse"
In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Identify others' Increase the
best practice, to standards for
see how they ride riding dead
dead horses horses
In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Appoint a task Spend more money
force to revive on training to
the dead horse improve our dead
horse riding skills
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3. In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Change the rules Threaten to get the
& requirements private sector to
& declare that the ride the dead horse
horse is not dead because they can
do it better
In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Harness several Make a declaration
dead horses that "No horse is
together for too dead to beat."
increased speed
In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Provide additional Do a study to see if
funding to increase contractors can ride
dead horse the horses cheaper
performance than we can
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4. In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Purchase a product Declare a dead
to make dead horse is "better,
horses run faster faster and cheaper"
to ride
In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Form a quality Promote the dead
circle to find new horse
uses for dead
horses
In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Switch riders Move the horse
to a new location
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5. In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Ride the horse for Say things like
longer periods of
time "This is the way
we've always
ridden them..."
In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Arrange to visit Create new tests
other sites where for measuring our
they ride dead ability to ride a
horses more dead horse
efficiently
In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Compare how we Complain about
are riding now with the state of horses
how we did ten or these days
twenty years ago
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6. In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Blame the horse's Kill the messenger
parents... the that tells you that
problem is clearly your horse is dead
in the breeding
In education, when riding a dead horse we: In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Compare the state Suggest that we
of dead horses in need to take our
today's world to the horses back to the
old days basics
In education, when riding a dead horse we:
Appoint a committee
to study the horse
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