Well…Animal kingdom…if we’re honest…which included all stars and wide world of sport and blizzard.
#thanksEisner
They didn’t have the deep pockets at that time that they do now.
My compliments on your restraint in not using a laundry list of expletives applicable to the Bobs.
They’ve done an excellent job of implicating themselves in world view the last 2+ years
Eisner gets a lot of hate but modern, all-powerful Disney is his doing. The expansion of the parks on all fronts in the first half of his tenure (heck, even the 2nd half, though obviously much diminished comparatively) is a sight to behold in hindsight.
He stayed too long…
Even late years Eisner looks like our lord and saviour compared to what’s happening now.
This is what I always come back to for the Bob lovers…who just bought brands and has thoroughly exploited them in ridiculous time. Charts of box office revenues - not profits - just revenues.
Tbf I think Iger did a decent job. Obviously the shareholders would say that he did. He didn't have the creative side that Eisner had nor the almost insane ambition. His biggest accomplishments were buying other IP, which served Disney extremely well, getting a theme park built who's long term future has to be in doubt with US-China relations being what they are now, and somewhat fixing the Parks messes that the late Eisner-era introduced around the globe, with the domestic parks lagging in investment until the end of his tenure. Although biggest of all will likely be Disney+, which he somehow got ahead of the curve on and has been a wild success, even if everything about streaming has a somewhat uncertain future.
Sorry…
That is true. Him leaving in a panic left no one but Chapek. Who has been a pretty big disaster. I'm not even sure if he has any strengths as a CEO. His skillset screams upper-middle management to me. Doesn't appear to have a willingness to spend the gobs of money necessary to maintain/grow the parks, and no creativity to make up for that, nor does he have any discernable skill in surrounding himself with top advisors or talent (which is always necessary for a successful Chief Executive in any field).
…the prosecution rests
Messes he was part of creating and that he only started to address when outside parties pressured him to do something.
“Half assed fixes”….I might add.
I'm generally a defender of Iger's tenure - But I agree with you here. One of the most important jobs to CEO has is picking their successor. So much so that a bad pic can overshadow and otherwise good tenure as CEO. And I think that's the case here. Iger couldn't have picked worse unless he had picked Ike - and Ike was too old.
That was in the “save Disney” announcement as a top 3 “failure”
I wonder if that pick was deliberate? Maybe he picked Chappie because he wasn't up to the task and the board wouldn't have been able to replace him. Thus allowing Iger to continue. If covid hadn't happened, Chappie would have gone away like Staggs and Rossullo did as heir apparent.
He certainly is “proving his worth”
