{"id":339,"date":"2010-04-12T17:34:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T00:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2010-04-12T17:34:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T00:34:54","slug":"leadership-is-disney%e2%80%99s-iger-having-a-cinderella-moment-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/leadership-is-disney%e2%80%99s-iger-having-a-cinderella-moment-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership: Is Disney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Iger Having a Cinderella Moment? &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In each case, Mr. Iger found a solution, sometimes cajoling his people to do more and sometimes intervening more directly. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I like our people to solve problems on their own, and they usually do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says later. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But I will do a deep dive if there is a lot at stake or if there are creative challenges.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Deep is not a word that most people used to describe Mr. Iger when he took control of Disney five years ago. In fact, he was widely dismissed as little more than a stuffed suit who might have had the skills to fix a highly dysfunctional company but lacked creative sizzle or big-picture brilliance to raise its game. His predecessor Michael D. Eisner endorsed him, but faintly \u00e2\u20ac\u201d at least according to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153DisneyWar,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the 2005 book that chronicled Mr. Eisner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fall from power.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/11\/business\/11iger.html?hpw\">Is Disney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Iger Having a Cinderella Moment? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In each case, Mr. Iger found a solution, sometimes cajoling his people to do more and sometimes intervening more directly. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I like our people to solve problems on their own, and they usually do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says later. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But I will do a deep dive if there is a lot at stake or if there are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/leadership-is-disney%e2%80%99s-iger-having-a-cinderella-moment-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leadership: Is Disney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Iger Having a Cinderella Moment? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,73],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-leadership","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}