UNCgolf
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My personal take? You are going to have a real hard time convincing me the ceo is intimately involved in the entertainment and experiences of a single division of a company this large. I'm sure he issues hire up edicts (just as iger did) as to we need this percentage of profits, etc., but I fully believe cuts and such are being sent down by the head of that division, not a micromanaging ceo.
I've mentioned this here multiple times, but most people don't really understand what a CEO actually does, especially for a large corporation. They can certainly take a bigger interest in a specific area if they want, but that's why there's a whole hierarchy. It's very rare for them to be involved in day to day operational decisions -- in fact, it's not even likely that D'Amaro was specifically involved in most of these parks decisions. It's more likely (this is a simple hypothetical for illustrative purposes) that Chapek told D'Amaro he wanted a 5% cut in parks spending, and then D'Amaro went to each resort head and told them they needed to cut some % of their spending to create an overall 5% cut, and then it filtered on down.
It's pretty unlikely that Chapek or D'Amaro instructed any kind of specific cuts to anything. That would generally be left up to people lower on the corporate ladder to hit the desired figures.
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