The chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company shares his personal story of his rise to the heights of the entertainment industry, detailing his youth; his tenures at ABC, Paramount Pictures, and Disney; his successes and failures; and his philosophy of business and leadership. 500,000 first printing.
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Michael Eisner, chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company, lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Jane. They have three sons. He will donate all the author royalties from this book to a special fund for the education of children of Disney employees.
Tony Schwartz has worked as a writer and associate editor for Newsweek, and as a reporter for The New York Times. He is the coauthor with Donald Trump of the number one bestselling Art of the Deal. His most recent book was What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America. He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.
oks have been published about business, but rarely has a CEO as prominent as Michael Eisner of The Walt Disney Company written so intimately about his life and work. In Work in Progress, Eisner describes the daily challenge of a rapidly changing marketplace, countless creative choices, painful setbacks, and dramatic triumphs.
For more than thirty years, Michael Eisner has lived and worked at the center of American popular culture. At ABC, as a young executive, he helped bring to life shows such as Happy Days and the miniseries Roots. As president of Paramount Pictures, he was responsible for films ranging from Beverly Hills Cop and Raiders of the Lost Ark to Terms of Endearment and The Elephant Man. As chairman of The Walt Disney Company for the past fourteen years, he has orchestrated the transformation of a beloved but struggling company into a multimedia giant in movies, television, radio, theme parks, theater, and even c
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