I can see the signs changing now: Welcome to Eisner-DisneyWorld... hyphenating the Disney name with his own... perhaps a 50th anniversary "celebration?"
What a joke.
Or maybe EisneyWorld? Either way, even if his name isn't on it, his fingerprints are EVERYWHERE on it.... and they will be for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time to come, even if he isn't... people will be afraid to come back to work at Disney (artists, etc.) for fear that the wussy Disney board will be afraid to take on the new CEO and stop the same problems from reoccuring.
For faith to be restored in the Disney company, it's going to require a HUGE re-tool of the way things are managed. I say, put the power in the hands of the people who know what goes on... find people in each division who know their jobs and make THEM the execs. We don't need high-priced nose-in-the-air execs like Eisner who have no understanding of how things should be, let alone how they are. And in my humble opinion, to hell with the Shareholders... they should be buying Disney for the name, not the potential money-making value. I have long believed that the Disney company should not be public for that very reason. Private investors understand the long-term investment potential of a company like Disney -- in a publically traded company, the investors are fickle and looking to turn a dime as quickly as possible and then get out... that's not the Disney way... it's the Eisner way. Let him go run (ruin?) Enron or something.
Joe Fox
P.S. Look for my editorial soon.... this is just a soapbox speech.
