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...land of Confucius, Lu Weiding carries a heavy family responsibility. His father owns a $1 billion auto-parts supplier that controls the biggest privately run firm on China's stock exchange. But while Lu Guanqiu wanted his son to succeed him, the younger Lu rejected filial obligation and spent his teens careering around rural China in jeeps and on motorcycles. When he rear-ended a dump truck, Dad finally packed him off to Singapore to study and, says Lu, "to save me from becoming a failure...
...Jordan has made himself popular with eBay's community of more than 100,000 merchants by responding to their e-mails. Though Whitman isn't planning to step aside soon, Jordan seems to be laps ahead of anyone else in the race to succeed her. After all, it's hard to compete with a Tasmanian Devil. --By Chris Taylor/San Francisco
Karmazin is the natural choice to succeed Redstone, though it's unclear when that might occur. The two men, whose acrimonious relationship is well publicized, renewed their contracts this year, but Redstone's contains no termination clause, and Karmazin's expires in 2006. Fearful of being sidelined, Redstone, 80, won language stating that he has "full and final decision-making authority" over corporate strategy and that he should be kept apprised of "significant operating" issues. Asked to describe their relationship, Karmazin says, "Healthy." --By Daren Fonda/New York
...founding employee of Japan's no. 1 mobile-phone carrier, Shiro Tsuda has reaped the rewards--and suffered the consequences--of being a pioneer. And it has paid off: when NTT DoCoMo's president, Keiji Tachikawa, 64, steps down, Tsuda is expected to succeed him. "Tsuda has a good sense of balance between technology and marketing, and he has the confidence of his co-workers," says Shinji Moriyuki, senior telecom analyst at Daiwa Research Institute in Tokyo...
Sangay added that he didn’t think that violence would succeed. He also noted that there is a new leader, Karmapa, who is ready to fill the shoes of the Dalai Lama...