Darkbeer
02-06-2004, 01:39 PM
Jobs for Disney (http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2004/commentary040206RAM.htm) - Motley Fool, 2/6/04
QuikQuote: Apple was staging a corporate comeback based on quality personal computers with cutting-edge design while Disney sifted through the formulaic. Apple was getting users to pay up for premium systems. Meanwhile, Disney was ramming uninventive, low-cost animation into the direct-to-video distribution channels, opening incomplete theme parks, and draining its only hit show on ABC by overexposing it. Jobs was breaking the mold. Eisner was making the mold moldy.
Over the past decade, Disney has been riddled with executive defections, costly hiring mistakes, and brainless acquisitions. The uninspiring buildout of Disney's flagship parks and the diluted quality of its feature animation studios may have prompted the arrival of the Web-clicking lynch mob, but it was also Eisner's audacity to shoo away top talent while weaving a golden parachute for Michael Ovitz that made him the enemy of both the bean counter and the mouseketeer.
QuikQuote: Apple was staging a corporate comeback based on quality personal computers with cutting-edge design while Disney sifted through the formulaic. Apple was getting users to pay up for premium systems. Meanwhile, Disney was ramming uninventive, low-cost animation into the direct-to-video distribution channels, opening incomplete theme parks, and draining its only hit show on ABC by overexposing it. Jobs was breaking the mold. Eisner was making the mold moldy.
Over the past decade, Disney has been riddled with executive defections, costly hiring mistakes, and brainless acquisitions. The uninspiring buildout of Disney's flagship parks and the diluted quality of its feature animation studios may have prompted the arrival of the Web-clicking lynch mob, but it was also Eisner's audacity to shoo away top talent while weaving a golden parachute for Michael Ovitz that made him the enemy of both the bean counter and the mouseketeer.