http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-fi-disney7feb07,1,3435859.story?coll=la-headlines-business-enter (http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-fi-disney7feb07,1,3435859.story?coll=la-headlines-business-enter)

QuikQuote: In one passage of the book, Stewart describes a pivotal meeting of the Disney board in September 2002, during which Eisner continued an alleged pattern of expressing reservations and even outright opposition to Iger's promotion to CEO. At the meeting, which Iger attended, Eisner complained about dissident directors Roy E. Disney and Stanley P. Gold, who would later resign from the board and lead a shareholder revolt against him. "Stanley and Roy are trying to get rid of me. They don't think I can run this company. But who do you think can? Bob?" Eisner asked, turning to Iger and adding dismissively, "Bob can't run this company."
The subject of ABC's performance also came up during a two-day board retreat in 2003 at Walt Disney World, according to Stewart, and provided Eisner with another opportunity to question Iger's leadership ability and creative skills. When Iger left after giving a presentation on ABC's ratings woes, the talk turned to succession. "If I had to choose," Eisner said, "it would not be Bob."

Interesting book. The turnaround in Eisner's attraction to Iger as a successor can mean only one thing: it allows Eisner to stay in power.

Eisner's contempt was directed further down the Disney food chain as well, according to Stewart's manuscript. In one passage, he calls his theme park executives "monkeys." "They don't have any brains; they're not that smart," Eisner is quoted as saying. "It's a simple business."



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I thought the most interesting comments in the article were with Frank Wells. Here all this time people thought they were a solid team. Had he not died in the crash I wonder if we would have seen more hostility sooner - and maybe not had to go through the Pressler/cost custting/bad TV and movie years...

Eisner's contempt was directed further down the Disney food chain as well, according to Stewart's manuscript. In one passage, he calls his theme park executives "monkeys." "They don't have any brains; they're not that smart," Eisner is quoted as saying. "It's a simple business."
Maybe he was talking about Pressler and Harriss.

I thought the most interesting comments in the article were with Frank Wells. Here all this time people thought they were a solid team. Had he not died in the crash I wonder if we would have seen more hostility sooner - and maybe not had to go through the Pressler/cost custting/bad TV and movie years...
So it could've been suicide???

So it could've been suicide???

funny - in a sick, morbid kind of way... :eek:

funny - in a sick, morbid kind of way... :eek:
I don't usually go that way, but this time I did.