Bad Neighborhoods

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up… It knows 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.

Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century

The Internet has become the global platform for integration, allowing people to collaborate and compete everywhere and anywhere.

Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century

The quiet crisis is the steady erosion of America’s scientific and engineering base relative to the rest of the world.

Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century

You cannot remain analog in this digital world.

Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century

We are now in the era of ‘whatever you are good at, you should be able to take global.’

Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century