Darkbeer
03-17-2005, 07:33 AM
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-disney17mar17,0,3358823.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-disney17mar17,0,3358823.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions)
QuikQuote:For all of Disney Chairman George Mitchell's bleating about his board's dedication to transparency and good corporate governance, his conduct and that of his colleagues in the just-concluded search for a new Disney CEO have been nothing short of disgraceful. Their evasions, cover-ups and distortions set a new standard for how a corporate board ought not to act.
To add insult to injury, when this search for a CEO finally reached its predictable end, Mitchell and his colleagues proceeded to obfuscate and dissemble about what they had done. Mitchell's comments were particularly reprehensible.Not only did he make a big deal of emphasizing that Eisner had sat in on only part of only one outside candidate's interview, he also refused to disclose how many outside candidates the board had interviewed. In fact, it's been widely reported that the entire board interviewed only one outside candidate, Whitman, and Eisner was there for virtually all of that exchange. So much for transparency and accountability, not to mention candor.
QuikQuote:For all of Disney Chairman George Mitchell's bleating about his board's dedication to transparency and good corporate governance, his conduct and that of his colleagues in the just-concluded search for a new Disney CEO have been nothing short of disgraceful. Their evasions, cover-ups and distortions set a new standard for how a corporate board ought not to act.
To add insult to injury, when this search for a CEO finally reached its predictable end, Mitchell and his colleagues proceeded to obfuscate and dissemble about what they had done. Mitchell's comments were particularly reprehensible.Not only did he make a big deal of emphasizing that Eisner had sat in on only part of only one outside candidate's interview, he also refused to disclose how many outside candidates the board had interviewed. In fact, it's been widely reported that the entire board interviewed only one outside candidate, Whitman, and Eisner was there for virtually all of that exchange. So much for transparency and accountability, not to mention candor.