In other studies as well, creativity has begun to outshine other presumed pillars of leadership such as hard work and even integrity.
The boom turned to bust as complacent American policymakers across the political spectrum forgot that the sources of wealth, such as hard work, invention, and policies that permit a free flow of information, must be constantly renewed.
Non-voting Hispanics are also more likely than the voters to express conservative attitudes, such as agreeing that "hard work" is more important than "lucky breaks or help from other people" in getting ahead.
Marketing experts say these added benefits will appeal to the growing ranks of "weekend warriors, " but Noble is small and faces a competitive threat from industry giants, such as Nike, which are hard at work developing their own products.
As such, they wanted me to work hard at demonstrating that the employees would remain in a good position, that I would retain the current benefits, that we would hire the employees who were then employed by Intuit and that we would transition the customers seamlessly.
After a career in Hong Kong that earned him a cult following for work such as The Killer, A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled, he packed his bags in 1992 and set off for Hollywood with his family, an embryonic reputation, a smattering of English and a savvy production partner, Terence Chang.
Some volunteer work, such as removing debris after hurricanes, is undeniably hard, physically and emotionally.
And people on probation must seek work but can decline job offers, such as those requiring hard physical labour in the sweltering midsummer.
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But, as is often the case in such difficult matters, Congress left the hard work to the regulators: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was told to write rules describing exactly what steps developers had to take to gain this valuable liability protection.
What Lanier describes as "mashup" culture -- where nothing is quite a whole work but rather snippets of things remixed together -- leads to aggregation of aggregators such as FriendFeed, where it's hard to tell the source of a work, idea, or quote, and where there is barely any context, if any at all.
Admittedly, cyclical increases in unemployment may become permanent if labour-market rigidities, such as strict hiring-and-firing laws, make it hard for the jobless to find work even when the economy recovers, a condition known as hysteresis.
I'm incredibly proud of how we've performed under such scrutiny, with last quarter's great financial results as a testament to everyone's hard work and focus.
He is less of a loner than Mr Bildt and may work more easily with some governments, such as America's, which sometimes found Mr Bildt hard to deal with.
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