Start Running

From The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman comes this African proverb translated into Mandarin and posted in an auto parts manufacturing plant in China:

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.

I don't know who is the lion and who is the gazelle, but I do know this: Ever since the Chinese joined the WTO, both they and the rest of the world have had to run faster and faster."

Several copies of this book are available in the Goodwin Library--very interesing reading!
Source: The World is Flat