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...before Day One, for instance, Neff and Citrin cite Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, who, realizing she knew relatively little about finance, enlisted the director of financial analysis to give her a crash course in "Balance Sheet 101." To underscore the value of communication, they reveal that Gap CEO Paul Pressler kept a weblog as he visited stores around the country, assessing the retailers' culture and practices and trying his hand at tasks crucial to their operations. ("Stock replenishment," Pressler noted in an entry, "was one of my favorite jobs.") Leavened by anecdote and enriched by the authors' deep understanding...
Perhaps the most stinging charge is that Eisner has repelled corporate talent, particularly anyone with CEO potential. Disney has suffered an exodus of executives during his tenure. Its cast members no longer include execs like Paul Pressler, now at Gap; Geraldine Laybourne, who quit to co-found Oxygen Media; and Jeffrey Katzenberg, the man behind The Lion King, who co-founded DreamWorks. Comcast's No. 2 executive, Burke, is a fast-track escapee. He spent 12 years at Disney and proved himself a skilled executive by recharging Disney's consumer-products division (it faltered after he left) and reviving Euro...
Resisting the temptation for romantic indulgence, Pressler inaugurated the Schubert trio with Beethovenian stateliness, bringing out the authority of chords and arpeggios. But if the first movement felt somewhat restrained, the second movement, with its unforgettable, darksome melody, was played with less sense and more sensibility. In this famous movement, Schubert makes the most of few materials, building hundreds of bars on a single, two-note interval. The trio successfully differentiated every reiteration, varying their emotional colorings with exquisite care...
After rather thunderous ovations, the trio performed for two encores, the concert’s highlights. Dismissing Schubert’s sweetness, Pressler called the audience “back to earth” by playing the frenzied scherzo of Shostakovich’s second piano trio. After this outburst of energy, Pressler then returned listeners “back to heaven” with the slow movement of Beethoven’s Trio No. 11. Arguing for Beethoven’s status as a romantic, the trio played with some of the maudlin expressivity that the previous performances...
...Menahem Pressler, Daniel Hope, Antonio Meneses...