Working Together, Michael D. Eisner
Working Together, Michael D. Eisner
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Working Together
Why Great Partnerships Succeed

Author: Michael D. Eisner, Aaron R. Cohen

Narrator: Michael D. Eisner, Rick Adamson

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/14/2010


Synopsis

In Working Together, a fascinating and invaluable look at why great partnerships succeed, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner discusses how professional partnerships have contributed to his success. In addition, Eisner tells the stories of nine other highly successful business collaborations, including Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti, Bill and Melinda Gates, Joe Torre and Don Zimmer, and Brian Grazer and Ron Howard.

About Michael D. Eisner

Michael D. Eisner has been a leader in the American entertainment industry for four decades. While president of Paramount Pictures, he turned out hit films such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Saturday Night Fever. As chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, he transformed a film and theme park company with $1.8 billion in enterprise value into a global media empire valued at $80 billion. In 2005 Eisner founded The Tornante Company, a privately held corporation that makes investments in and incubates companies and opportunities in the media and entertainment space.

About Aaron R. Cohen

Aaron Cohen, a writer and television producer, has won thirteen Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award for his work at NBC and HBO, and has twice received the Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Writing for his work on the critically acclaimed boxing documentary series 24/7.


Reviews

I have to admit, when I first heard about this book, I thought it was a joke. “Working Together”, from the man who was such a famously difficult manager? But as I read, I realized that I’d fallen prey to the same short-term-ism we are always decrying: my personal impression of Eisner was formed from......more

Good example how you can work with friends, families and colleagues together. It’s more explaining based on examples how it works rather than how you can do it. You need some translation to do but it helps us to understand how people can interact better and add a value to their collaboration.......more

Goodreads review by Brent

Lots of different case studies of successful partnerships......more

Goodreads review by Mindful

I felt a great sense of satisfaction when completing this book. We often hear the horror stories of business relationships, large and small. This book highlighted, again and again, that goodness is the most successful characteristic of successful partnerships. Like a timeless Disney classic, good tr......more

Goodreads review by Tori

Read this immediately after Bob Iger's book The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company to get a different perspective on the years running Disney before Iger came on. Of course that story is only about 10% of the book and the rest is analyses of other leg......more