DisneyWar
by James B. Stewart
View on GoodreadsStewart's account of Michael Eisner's twenty years running Disney, from the turnaround that saved the company to the boardroom collapse that ended in a shareholder revolt and Roy Disney's Save Disney campaign. It is a study of how a successful executive's need for control corrodes succession, and then the board itself.
Core ideas
- A chief executive who cannot tolerate a credible successor guarantees a succession crisis
- Creative businesses run on relationships, and relationship failures surface on the balance sheet years later
- Boards captured by management stop functioning as a check long before anyone will admit it
Published2005
Pages592
ISBN9780684809939
ReadAug 2026
