It's the Iraq war resolution vote all over again -- and it's a page out of the George Bush playbook: make a mistake, and by God I'm gonna stick by that mistake because I'm resolute.
But RIM was smart to make the PlayBook a completely different form factor and give it BlackBerry Bridge to appeal to corporate users.
And, third, it sees the opportunity to take a page out of America's 20th-century playbook, making a large domestic automobile industry the cornerstone of global economic leadership.
DoorDash looks to be successful and build out a playbook to make money and become a sustainable business, which requires the company to not only build good tools for consumers and businesses, but also the company's delivery fleet as well, Xu said.
In "Silver Linings Playbook," Russell makes a movie of overt symbolism, such as should be no problem for audiences accustomed, as we are, to cinematic artifice.
When Mr. Russell, in turn, makes a movie like "Silver Linings Playbook," he seems a model of Expressive Esoterica, those directors whose "deeper virtues," as Sarris wrote, "are often obscured by irritating idiosyncrasies on the surface".
But when it comes to making a country more innovative, the playbook is thin.
It's the other things he gives you besides phrases and diagrams in a playbook that make the playbook effective.
To do that, the company has been following the Yahoo playbook of late, making a handful of acquisitions to bring startup talent in-house.
This will make the PlayBook less appealing to people who are not already RIM customers.The second handicap is more serious.
