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Dakota Tribal Wisdom Says That When You're On A Dead Horse, The Best Strategy Is To Dismount. Of Course, There Are Other Strategies. You Can Change Riders. You Can Get A Committee To Study The Dead Horse. You Can Benchmark How Other Companies Ride Dead Horses. You Can Declare That It's Cheaper To Feed A Dead Horse. You Can Harness Several Dead Horses Together. But After You've Tried All These Things, You're Still Going To Have To Dismount.

Like A Child Star Whose Fame Fades As The Years Advance, Many Once-innovative Companies Become Less So As They Mature.

Most Of Us Do More Than Subsist. From The Vantage Point Of Our Ancestors, We Live Lives Of Almost Unimaginable Ease. Here Again, We Have Innovation To Thank.

Whatever You Shoot Is Dead For A While Before It Starts To Stink. The Same Goes For Strategies. How Many Organizations Carry This Dead Thing Around With Them, Unaware Of Its Irrelevancy Until It Is Too Late?

The Real Damper On Employee Engagement Is The Soggy, Cold Blanket Of Centralized Authority. In Most Companies, Power Cascades Downwards From The Ceo. Not Only Are Employees Disenfranchised From Most Policy Decisions, They Lack Even The Power To Rebel Against Egocentric And Tyrannical Supervisors.