Word: igerant
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Bookstores around Minneapolis' Convention Center reportedly did not have it in stock, which was one scrap of good news for Disney president and COO Robert Iger. A leading candidate to replace Eisner, Iger cannot be helped in his bid by his portrayal in DisneyWar as Eisner's beaten cur--a disrespected, whiny No. 2 with poor judgment, serving a CEO who wanted a nonthreatening deputy to "take all the s___" of running a company. And Eisner says more than once that Iger is unfit to take his job. Iger, he says, "can never succeed...
...this for Iger: at least he is not Eisner, who is to DisneyWar what Cruella De Vil was to 101 Dalmatians. Amazingly, Stewart--Pulitzer-prizewinning author of the insider-trading exposé Den of Thieves--had the cooperation of Eisner and Disney, having approached them in early 2003 to do a book on how Disney was adapting to the changing media world. Eisner granted him interviews; Stewart even wore a Goofy costume at Walt Disney World. But within a few months he had ringside seats as Roy Disney, nephew of founder Walt Disney, launched a shareholder revolt against...
...DisneyWar are familiar: Eisner's fallings-out with lieutenants Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Ovitz, the turbulence at the acquired ABC network. But Stewart gleans fantastic fly-on-the-wall reportage from his inside access, interviews and Eisner's revealing notes and e-mails. Some of these incidents put Iger in a bad light just as the Disney board is considering CEO candidates. At the end of an argument between him and ABC chairman Lloyd Braun, Iger gets so agitated that he accidentally hits a waiter, who spills coffee down Iger's shirt. Not that Iger's own treatment was better...
...fired or forced out at Disney? When Eisner professes loyalty to him. How do you know when someone at Disney is about to have a great success? When she gets fired or forced out. Braun, for instance, is booted just before his brainchild Lost--derided by Eisner and Iger--becomes...
From age 10, Iger dreamed of being a network correspondent. But after a brief flirtation with TV news reporting, Iger moved behind the camera in 1974, working his way up to executive vice president at the ABC TV network in 1988. A year later, Iger was put in charge of ABC Entertainment. Under his stewardship the network moved from second place to first in prime-time ratings during the 1994-95 season. Through the hit show Home Improvement, a production of Disney's Touchstone Television unit, Iger got to know Eisner, who would become his boss when CapCities/ABC and Disney...