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His parents have success-driven careers and are out of touch with their son's life.

Zaan is a smart and success-driven man who spent most of his life working in a library.

The book is set against the backdrop of the admissions craze, as success-driven parents push their children to compete for places in the best colleges.

"Success-driven complacency is the real culprit behind a failure to innovate, not a lack of competition," Mr. Chandrashekaran said.

"Achievement-oriented, aggressive, dominant, success-driven males have a very low tolerance for boredom and passivity," Dr. Goldberg said.

Honda sees both of these groups as sociable, success-driven consumers that have active lifestyles and are style and image conscious, yet intelligent and value-savvy.

Of course, a team like the Mets, on the East Coast, with access to success-driven lucrative cable TV deals, can adapt in ways that other teams cannot.

Robert Falls's shadow-shrouded, powerhouse staging never looks down on Mr. Miller's deluded Brooklyn dreamer or looks ennoblingly up to him as a martyr to a success-driven country.

In "Hedley," Mr. Wilson seems to be directly invoking Mr. Miller's masterpiece and pointing out with renewed vigor how an affluent, success-driven society maims those who fail by its standards.

In many respects Mr. Kwatinetz has created a company with the aura of an exclusive club - one in which he hand-picks the guests because they are success-driven but can get along with one another.

His current research activities focus on norms and conflict, the role of success-driven motion for the establishment of cooperation among selfish individuals, the science of science, socio-inspired technology and techno-social systems, disaster spreading and crisis management.

In a clear-eyed account of what might beset an unraveling American family anywhere but was certainly made worse by Silicon Valley's brand of success-driven self-absorption, Mr. Goodell explains how he became more straitlaced in response to the problems of his younger brother, Jerry.