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Backstabbing. Betrayals. Firings. You need look no further than the top ranks of the Walt Disney Co. in recent years to know that likeability isn't necessarily a required characteristic for the corner-office job. But could CEO Michael Eisner, for example, have been more effective as a manager at Disney if he had been friendlier? Tim Sanders, a Yahoo! executive and author of the new self-help manual The Likeability Factor (Crown; 220 pages), thinks so. "Good things happen to you in business when you're emotionally attractive," insists Sanders...
...APPOINTED. ROBERT IGER, 54, president of Walt Disney Co.; as CEO, to replace his longtime boss Michael Eisner, who will step down in September under fire from shareholders over his autocratic management style and Disney's lackluster growth; in Los Angeles. Though a recent book claimed that Eisner did not have confidence in his No. 2's ability to fill his shoes, Iger was tapped by the board of directors when Eisner decided to step down one year earlier than expected...
APPOINTED. ROBERT IGER, 54, longtime ABC executive and president of Walt Disney Co.; as CEO, to replace his boss, Michael Eisner, who will step down in September, a year earlier than expected, after coming under fire for his autocratic management style and Disney's recent lackluster growth; by the board of directors; in Burbank, Calif...
...same experiment in 2002 and '03, separating 16-to-20-year-olds by gender for two years. That time the boys slipped even further behind. "The boys said the girls were better anyway," says Kristjan Asmundsson, who taught the 25 boys. "They didn't even try." --By Vivienne Walt...
Jacoby grounded her argument for a more secular government in the opinions and beliefs of the founding fathers of the United States as well as such influential American thinkers as poet Walt Whitman, scholar Robert G. Ingersoll, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy...