Breakaway Speed

Strategies for Creating a Faster, More Empowered Workforce

There is an old African proverb: When the sun comes up, the gazelle wakes up knowing that it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be eaten. The lion knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. So it doesn’t matter if you are a gazelle or a lion, when the sun comes up, you had better be running.

Today, this proverb might be used to describe the corporate jungle. From office cubicles to factory floors, companies must be quicker than their competitors. Those that deliver results faster than others in the marketplace will not only survive another day, they will thrive well into the future.