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How Disney's CEO Works
Posted by Gina Trapani at 7:00 AM on December 11, 2007
Disney CEO Bob Iger shares a few tidbits about how his typical workday goes with Fortune magazine. He gets up at 4:30 a.m., exercises regularly and he eschews the chauffeur and drives himself to work so he has a little extra privacy. He's also a stickler for punctual meetings:
My day needs to be managed like clockwork. If people are late for meetings, the meetings tend to go late, which throws off my agenda thereafter. I frequently start the meeting even if all the people expected to be in attendance aren't there. I don't need to say to people, "Be on time." They know.Oh, to be the CEO! See how more business gurus—like Google's Marissa Mayer and designer Vera Wang—work.
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advancedovariancancersymptom.info
Posted 4:16 PM 10/12/07
His work is very interesting because Disney is a millionaire company... develops very well his ideas.
advancedovariancancersymptom.info
TechNTools
Posted 5:31 PM 10/12/07
I used to work at Disney. You can't call a meeting without an agenda, all meetings start promptly on time and you must leave the conference room 5 minutes before your scheduled end time to be courteous to the next group. I found this very efficient and kept people on task.
TechNTools
ChambrasWeed
Posted 5:15 PM 10/12/07
4:30 am!!!!!! wow that is amazing. I wonder at what time he goes to sleep ;)
ChambrasWeed
normanm4
Posted 5:06 PM 10/12/07
Wonder what his day looked like before he had the top job?
normanm4
edosan
Posted 8:26 PM 10/12/07
Rule number one: Be the CEO of Disney, so you can do whatever you darn well please.
edosan
Patrick Mathieu
Posted 9:14 PM 10/12/07
Shame on the Fortune reporter!! It's an article about how the CEO of Disney works and they didn't even ask Mr. Iger whether or not he whistles!
Such a terrible oversight! Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Patrick Mathieu
xtc46
Posted 12:27 AM 11/12/07
I agree with the way meetings are run by him. Meetings should have a clear agenda, and should try not to get off task. Too much time is wasted in meetings.
xtc46
The Consultant
Posted 11:36 AM 11/12/07
I have found that holding meetings without chairs (everyone stands) are very efficient. Picked up the idea from a company I consulted at years ago.
The Consultant
Coherent
Posted 1:42 PM 13/12/07
WOW, BOB IGER IS SO EFFICIENT WHICH IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE DISNEY IS SO CREATIVE AND RELEVANT TO ENTERTAINMENT TODAY!
So creative that they had to _buy_ Pixar to show them how to make animated films again.
Coherent
Haltingpoint
Posted 9:30 AM 14/12/07
Not sure if anybody noticed but the first comment here that is barely in english is a comment spam account with the URL as the user name.
Haltingpoint