Given the fresh start pledged in Wednesday's agreement between the parties, whoever succeeds Robinson will also require this quality.
Blackstone made its ambitions clear from the start, pledging to turn Southern Cross into "the leading company in the elderly care market".
SOCCKET is currently fundraising over at Kickstarter, with a starting pledge of $89.
ORA has just launched on Kickstarter with a starting pledge of $99, so if you're looking to add real sound to the iPad, head on over to the Kickstarter page and check it out.
One simple way for the developed world to reaffirm its resolve is by meeting the existing fast-start pledge made in Copenhagen.
Environmental think tank WRI was quick to note that "while this represents a significant step in the right direction, developed countries still have much to do in meeting their Copenhagen fast-start pledge".
First a bit of background: The fast-start pledge was only intended to help fund poorer, more vulnerable countries' climate efforts from now through 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol is due to expire.
One such start-up, De-tread, plans to harvest the thousands of discarded tires that are a blight and health hazard around the city and turn the rubber into new products, including floor mats for cars, a good match for automobile manufacturers that have started pledging to include recycled content in new vehicles.
That, combined with the fast start finance pledge the administration made in Copenhagen, the rapidly changing clean energy market, and President Littlefield's leadership, has brought about a fundamental shift at the agency.
For a start, by pledging a big chunk of government money to hydrogen research, Mr Bush is helping his natural constituents in the car and energy industries.
And as Mr Norquist has shown, political hostage-taking works, but it can be a long game (he started collecting pledge signatures in 1986).
