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...decade, CG animation has achieved a commercial and artistic revolution. It has also achieved something else: it annihilated the Disney cartoon feature. Now, with a fresh team at the company--CEO Robert Iger, film-studio boss Richard Cook and animation chief David Stainton--Disney has begun the arduous process of remaking itself. "It's like a battleship changing course," Cook says. "It takes a while, but we're moving in the right direction...
...deputy director, documents Brown submitted for his Senate confirmation hearing--which lasted all of 42 minutes--led Connecticut's Joseph Lieberman to cite the nominee's "useful experience ... as assistant city manager in Edmond [Okla.], with responsibility for police, fire and emergency services." But according to Brown's former boss, then city manager Bill Dashner, as well as current Edmond officials, that job description was overblown. "He was my administrative assistant," Dashner says. "Every now and again, I'd ask him to write me a speech." FEMA public-affairs officer Nicol Andrews acknowledges that Brown started as an intern...
...expect people to do things I don't do myself. If I'm traveling coach, working 24/7, working on the weekends, and I'm asking them to do a weekend, they don't say, "Noel's on vacation most of the time. He's an absentee boss." I'm there in the trenches with all of them, working to put it together piece by piece...
...DIFFER FROM DONALD TRUMP AS A BOSS? Donald loves to fire people. I find it an extremely unpleasant exercise. I have other people...
...grown more hermetic in the second term, they say, with fewer people willing or able to bring him bad news--or tell him when he's wrong. Bush has never been adroit about this. A youngish aide who is a Bush favorite described the perils of correcting the boss. "The first time I told him he was wrong, he started yelling at me," the aide recalled about a session during the first term. "Then I showed him where he was wrong, and he said, 'All right. I understand. Good job.' He patted me on the shoulder. I went...