In 2005, the year after The Apprentice premiered on NBC, legendary reality producer Mark Burnett published an autobiographical business-advice book called Jump In!
Even if You Don’t Know How to Swim. Ten years later, he jumped into a new pond as he became a top executive at MGM. The waters were deep.
After years of unmatched success, Burnett, the chairman of MGM’s worldwide television group, now occupies an ambiguous position of power at what may be the only media company in history to go without a chief executive for two years.
Critics say Burnett has not only failed to generate new hits for the company — as explored in an Oct. 22 New York Times column — but that he has been, much like the president with whom he is so closely associated,.
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