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Kawasaki likes his rookie entrepreneurs to be young, hungry and determined and sleepless. "Success takes crazy passionate people who believe they can change the world," he says. "Success doesn't take 'professional' and 'proven' people." His ultimate role models are megasuccessful outfits such as Apple, Microsoft, eBay, Google, HP and YouTube. The author delivers inspirational tough love to his minions: "My theory is that when you're young, you should work 80 hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world...
Then she'll have to wait out the two years she still has left as Alaska governor. And they could be difficult ones. Her aggressive posture toward the state legislature's Troopergate investigation and her emergence as a GOP leader have frayed relationships crucial to Palin's success. Her major accomplishments in Alaska - laying the groundwork for a natural-gas pipeline, reforming oil taxes - relied on support from Democratic lawmakers, who will now be less inclined to cross the aisle...
...shot, and when you get a shot, you just take it, and it went in,” Biega said. “Our execution has been really good so far, but I think once we get going here, we’re going to start finding more success on the scoreboard if we just try to get more shots through...
...three Republican presidents in thirty years, taxes and spending lack the political salience they once had. Today, four in five taxpayers pay more in payroll taxes than they do in income taxes and some 29 million Americans pay no income tax at all. Republicans have become victims of their success; they must extend their focus to more pressing issues, like the rising costs of education, healthcare, and retirement...
...When removed from power by voters, no party keelhauls itself quite like the GOP. The party's success at capturing the White House is matched by a violent, burn-it-all-down mentality when it loses. Because John McCain's defeat seemed likely for weeks, the fighting began long before Election Day. Some Republicans believe that the old conservative message must be modernized. Others see a need to return to the conservatism of old. For many, Palin was a godsend, a true populist in the spirit of Ronald Reagan. For others, she was a nightmare. With no leader in sight...