Yes for many reason, including but not limited to jealousy, ego, vanity, loyalty to the previous people which were being replaced, trying to prevent someone better from taking your job in the future, and the list goes on.
But do they open in a way that it’s very likely to hit a guest? This gate swings right into the main exit path from the ride.
Yeah, but this is all expected. You're describing the inherent conditions of the corporate world. Essentially every leader in every large company faces these exact same dynamics. What would explain some leaders being successful and some not? My point is that the reason to pay someone "the big bucks" is -- beyond their instinct, talent, insight, blah, blah -- is that they will be able to employ and benefit the company with those attributes because they can also thrive and survive in the environment you describe.
It’s kind of hard to lead when not only does nobody report to you but they’re also told to ignore you.
...so why design the building like that? To design a brand new building to have a gate swing-opening onto that high-traffic guest path so therefore the gate had to be see-through so therefore guests have to see the backstage mechanicals? That's the creative/design/problem-solving path they followed which is being defended in a "well, they had to..."?
Either they do… or they were designed not to. Either way…. It’s the same point.
Again, why wasn't anyone made to report to him, why were people told to ignore him? What is it about him that made that happen?
Again that assumes that the work force they come into lead accepts them from the start. And in an ideal world they would, but we don't live in an ideal world. When a new leader comes into an existing organization its almost like a courtship that has to happen. Both sides have to be accepting of each other and open to the advances of the other. If one side isn't accepting it doesn't matter what the other does it'll never work. Put it in the context of dating for example, if you start dating someone new but that person is still hung up on their ex there is almost no way it'll work as there is likely too much to overcome. The same happens in business again all the time. I've seen it happen at many of the companies I've worked for over the years. Its a very common tale in business unfortunately.
I think the point being made is that with the gate its a matter of function over form at this point. They were dealt a bad hand with regard to how the building was originally designed, as the gate in this case was an after thought it appears, and so had to work around that limitation for the reasons mentioned just to get something functional.
poor planning. This whole project is a disaster, literally front to back. Seems like someone somewhere didn’t realize the realities of what X SF sales area means in total.
Eisner became jealous and insecure. Powerful leaders not wanting a clear successor because they’re afraid of being usurped by that successor goes back millennia.
Did Ovitz fire you or a family member or something? I don't think anyone is really defending him here, but its seems like you have some personal grudge against him as you want to point all the blame of him not working out at Disney squarely at his shoulders.
I mean its Disney we're talking about, but it doesn't look like its that expensive of a building, at least by Disney standards. So I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple years they tear it down and start over.
Didn’t they reopen the shop next to pirates already? Is this building still neeeded?
Yeah it got reopened, but the idea was to move Mansion specific merch here to Leota's. So I would think its still needed overall.
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In other words......current Disney imagineering.
