Robert Iger to Succeed Michael Eisner As President of Disney; Steroids in Baseball; The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Robert Iger to Succeed Michael Eisner As President of Disney
Robert Iger will take over from Michael Eisner as the President of Disney, starting October 1st. Jim Bates, Assistant Business Editor for Entertainment at the Los Angeles Times joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss the story.
Steroids in Baseball
A Congressional committee has subpoenaed several baseball players to testify about steroid use in their profession. Pitcher Curt Schilling has become the first current player to agree to testify. Some of the other players have not yet agreed to testify. According to the Associated Press, the commissioner's office has said it will fight the subpoenas, which also were issued to Jason Giambi, Sammy Sosa, Frank Thomas and Rafael Palmeiro. Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire also were summoned for the March 17 hearing in Congress. Mark Fainaru-Wada, sports reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, and Mike DiGiovanna, Angels beat writer for Los Angeles Times, who is at Spring Training right now, join Larry to talk about the story.
The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
In his new book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Little, Brown), Malcolm Gladwell, author of the best-seller The Tipping Point examines how we make choices in an instant without thinking and why some people are more adept at this kind of decision making than others. Great decision makers, Gladwell contends, aren’t those who process the most information but those who know how to filter through only the most pertinent information. The author joins Larry Mantle to talk about changing the way we think about thinking.