Overview
Ten legendary pairings reveal how shared ambition, trust, and teamwork turn creative friction into extraordinary business success.
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.
He details his ten years alongside Frank Wells at Disney. His chapters also follow Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank building Home Depot, alongside Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell at Studio 54.
- Strategic Planning: Grazer and Howard maintained a strict fifty-fifty financial split on every Imagine Entertainment film and television project, eliminating ego and scorekeeping across a quarter-century.
- Decision Making: Buffett and Munger rely on extensive daily reading and a thirty-second sounding board rather than Wall Street consensus, using contrary thinking to filter prospective investments.
- Leadership Frameworks: Bill and Melinda Gates operate as co-equals atop their global foundation, traveling separately to maximize diplomatic reach while jointly directing strategy for public health initiatives.
- Problem Solving: Torre relied on bench coach Don Zimmer to challenge conventional percentages during high-stakes games, trusting aggressive instincts like the hit-and-run to spark championship momentum.
- Organizational Development: Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti sustained a half-century empire by insulating the designer's atelier within a protective operational bubble that oversaw licensing and ready-to-wear.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780061732447
- ISBN-10: 0061732443
- Publisher: Harper Business
- Publish Date: July 2012
- Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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