As someone with some knowledge, I can share that it's moslty true. Bob has a knack for managing people...especially people on the creative side of the industry who are notoriously sensitive to feeling managed. It's why so many people expected him to jump into politics when he departed from Disney.

He gets away with this and is still an effective CEO because he gets others in his circle to play the bad cop and take bad press.

I say all this as someone with huge respect for Iger and all he's done.