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A Fable Run A-Foul

September 18, 2003

"Every morning in American, a chicken wakes up.  It knows it must run faster than the fastest fox or it will be killed.  Every morning a fox wakes up.  It knows it must outrun the slowest chicken or it will starve to death.  It doesn't matter whether you are a fox or a chicken - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running or somebody's goose'll be cooked by lunchtime (Drennan & Anderson, 2002, p. 80)."

Reference:  Drennan, M., & Anderson, J., (2002).  Soar above the madness: surviving office politics without losing your mind, your job, or your lunch.  Nashville:  Rutledge Hill Press.

Are you up and running when the sun comes up?

Soar Above the Madness is available on loan from the Ohio State University Leadership Center.  A complete listing of all the Leadership Center's resources is available on our website http://leadershipcenter.osu.edu

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Created: 2008-12-22, Updated: 2009-01-09