When you discover that you are `riding a dead house` the best strategy is to dismount, bury the horse and get a living horse. This is a mantra of the Dakota Indians which they have passed from one generation to the next.

However, in some countries more `advanced strategies` are often employed, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip
2. Appointing a committee to study the horse
3. Changing riders
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses
5. Lowering the standards so that the dead horse can be included
6. Re-classifying 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 to increase dead horse's performance
10. Rewriting the expected performance requirement for all horses
11. Promoting the dead horse to supervisory position

If you know, you know......(all italics mine) #Adapted

Elly Twineyo-Kamigusha is a Ugandan Economist and Author