Drdcm
Well-Known Member
I get it. You’re all good, and I agree with you about the constant negativity. My response to you was more pointing out my intentions. I didn’t mean it as an inherently negative thing, just a descriptive term of how he interacts with others and what tends to motivate people like him. I actually think Iger has the capacity to improve things because of his personality. I agree that he is reasonable and intelligent.I will admit that I am not a specialist in these topics nor do I feel I know Iger's personality well enough to comment on what he is like as a person. The reason I responded, though, is that I don't read this kind of comment as particularly scheming or manipulative versus a recognition of the bleeding obvious. That recognition was something Chapek just didn't seem to possess, and in his case there did seem to be a demonstrable lack of empathy at play in his inability to read people and situations. I don't know why that was the case with Chapek, though.
For me, Iger fits into the category of someone who I fully understand why people don't like a lot of his business decisions. On the whole, I don't think he's been good for the parks, for example. Seeing him interviewed (e.g., that Jon Stewart interview from a while back), though, he kind of reads as a reasonable and intelligent person rather than someone who is particularly scheming or manipulative. I think his polish, for example, is over-stated. Maybe that is all part of his act, though . There's no doubt he has a massive ego and is concerned about his image, but then at least the ego part probably comes with rising to those heights. I'm sure that was true of Eisner, Chapek and even dear old Walt.
In general, though, I have had an instinctive negative reaction to the way in which Disney fans seem to get so personally nasty about particular executives in the company that they don't know. That must have something to do with my personality, though I don't know what!
Sometimes I find him irritating though. Lol