lazyboy97o
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You’d still hear his earring jingling inside the foam head.
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Joe Rohde in EPCOT on 9/30
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matt9112
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Seems to happen a lot. What a coincidence!!
i think theres more to this haha
Chef Mickey
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Yeah, literally wandering. Word was Iger couldn't find Spaceship Earth and asked if EPCOT still had Horizons.
Oh, sorry, you meant the other Bob...Bob Iger doesn't even know there is a park in Florida.
cookiee_munster
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Joe has done a lot of posting on his instagram account about being in Papa New Guinea and Indonesia.
I do sometimes ask him if these trips are work or pleasure related, but i don't want to keep pestering him. they were incredibly insightful and really did feel like he was there to research rather than just relax and take it all in.
could this be some kind of research trip possibly for a new country in EPCOT or even Animal Kingdom???
I do sometimes ask him if these trips are work or pleasure related, but i don't want to keep pestering him. they were incredibly insightful and really did feel like he was there to research rather than just relax and take it all in.
could this be some kind of research trip possibly for a new country in EPCOT or even Animal Kingdom???
EricsBiscuit
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It's cool reading how Eisner would walk the parks after they closed just to chill and observe. They don't do that anymore
Was Eisner based out of Florida? Or he just did this when he would visit from Cali?
EricsBiscuit
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Fantasyland
mikeymouse
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My mom saw Joe pop out of Tiffins one evening that same week. I was only a few yards away, but he was gone.
No Name
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No, he lived and worked in California. And the vast vast majority of the time, he walked around with a bunch of people too. But he was different from Iger for sure.
AEfx
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Oh, for sure - he ran the feature and animated film business into the ground, alienated just about every single person in Hollywood from wanting to work with Disney (including nearly losing Pixar), and the shareholders ousted him with disgrace in a move nearly unprecedented in modern corporate America. But, he did walk around Disneyland a lot!
PorterRedkey
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All CEOs of Disney should be required to walk the parks! Not just at night, but in the summer heat waiting in the standby queues.
Epcot82Guy
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I don't necessarily believe that, but a CEO needs to have trusted people in place who do those things and are tasked (and rewarded) with being critical. If you don't - then you delegate to someone and fully trust your delegate.
It's a major issue with many, many large public companies. Wall Street is fickle. Maximize short term returns for most companies (especially in modern times). The big problem we have now is that spreadsheets and analysts are cheaper than on-the-ground quality control. So, Wall Street has become addicted to them (and has been, arguably, since the 80s). And, in return, so have the comp plans of most major corporate executives. "Do More With Less" = Wall Street Magic!!
Now back to our regularly scheduled topic!
Rteetz
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He mentioned it because he was in a public non-Disney place where he wouldn't have been expected to be asked that.
I think more of the execs are around at times than people realize. And With the care and attention to detail Joe has put into every project he has ever worked on, if given some authority to oversee or approve designs and ideas for "other" projects, it would certainly bring that attention to detail that seems to be lacking in some things, back to the table. I wonder.....
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Before Iger they all DID,
Eisner wore fur and dished out QS and took at turn at operating attractions, Iger and Co. is the first Disney CEO and executive team who DOES NOT VISIT THE PARKS, And the results speak for themselves.
ford91exploder
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Not to mention a chance to take a potshot at Iger and Chappie with no downside career risk.
jakeman
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Once again your point is lost because you can't resist the siren song of hyperbole and falsification.
They do visit the parks. I've seen them personally and it's been reported here as well. It's probably not as much as previous CEO (hard to verify considering the hyperaware social media world we live in now compared to the past), but you've made a definitive statement that is categorically false. Par for the course.
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