Olakunle Soriyan
Guest Article
In the late 90s, Silicon Valley, the haven of multi billion dollar IT companies, witnessed dramatic shows. The experience is a wakeup call to entrepreneurs and business executives of this century and beyond to make room for the arrival of a global economy driven by knowledge, technology and “dominance thinking” where superiority is determined by originality and innovation. Now, an African folktale spells out this way: Every morning, a gazelle walks and thinks, ‘to stay alive, I have to run faster than the fastest lion.’ This is always a significant incentive for gazelles to learn to run faster. But just over the hill, a lion realizes, ‘I have to run faster than the slowest gazelle otherwise I could go hungry’; meaning that even lions (if they get lazy and/or if gazelles get smarter) can starve; and so can great corporations and great
