I think the point that some, including myself, is that the constant Iger bashing is becoming tiring. How are we supposed to be able to focus on the threads about fun stuff like favorite park signs, change this or that surveys, or "your favorite crack in the concrete that supports a storyline of the attraction" threads.
I hear you that it gets tiring, but it's totally true and if we can't complain here, where can we?
Maybe I was looking at outdated data. This article from 2015 has him at #12, but I guess that is 2014 salary. I'm talking total compensation of course, not salary.
Give me a break. Walt Disney (the man) was a capitalist, plain and simple. When he said "quality will out," he wasn't speaking out of some rainbow-and-unicorn desire to give people kewl things just to be a super kewl dude. "Quality will out" means "building high-quality things is the best way to get people to give us piles and piles of money." Now you can disagree about whether Bob Iger has successfully implemented that particular strategy in pursuit of profit, but the pursuit of profit itself is nothing new.
Yeah, but you gotta throw some of those out like the GoPro guy because that is all based on IPO activity. A lot of these are 1 timers because IPO, options exercised, or they sold some shares like the QCOM guy. Look at Iger's $25m+ cash compensation. He also owns over 1m shares of DIS, so if he ever sold that, he'd be the highest paid CEO.
Sure, I get that. The thing is, he's not the CEO of Disney Parks™. He's the CEO of The Walt Disney Company. He has much more under his responsibility than WDW.
And I totally agree with you. He has done a lot of good for the company, which is ultimately his responsibility. I just think me and others have a hard time that he couldn't simultaneously manage a better showing at the flagship WDW. There are countless other pressures, but WDW is still ultimately his responsibility and its current state reflects poorly on him, no doubt about it.
No breaks given. Never said he "wasn't a Capitalist" (see my post again, or for the first time). Disney wants to imply the typical salesman (feel good, rainbow, unicorns that you mention) stuff that Disneyland was solely created as Walt sat on a park bench, watching his daughters play, and realizing that he wanted families to share attractions toghether. It is beyond obvious and not worth mentioning that Walt was a Capitalist. Nothing wrong with that either, despite how others may feel about that system. No Capitalism, no Disneyland.
Oh, trust me, I can disagree with the best of them!
This isn't what you initially argued. Paraphrasing, your initial statement was that there's something wrong with the pursuit of profit. In this statement, you seem to be saying that pursuit of profit is legitimate but that Iger isn't using what you believe to be the most effective strategy in that pursuit.
I view his 10 year run as a decent sample size and have given him credit on his acquisitions. While the announced plans might end up being excellent for the parks, they are not here today. I don't doubt he'll succeed in Star Wars, but it won't right all the wrongs of 10 years for me.Oh, trust me, I can disagree with the best of them!
Quite simply, I am not taking a short-term view, but a long-term one. His aquisitions of IP have set up a great future to mine for parks, the start of which is in the works now. He's invested in the parks, just most people like to write off NextGen as a disaster, when I view it as a brilliant investment in the parks by way of data. I like the work that has been done to refresh WDW, I do not judge based on how recent an E-ticket was added, but the overall picture. I like what I've seen as far as Avatar, Star Wars, and Toy Story so far, and assuming these things come to fruition as seemingly planned, then he'll have invested heavily into WDW, as he did for California Adventure as well.
The one thing I will agree on is the ruin of Epcot, but that started prior to his watch, and he's just continued the downward trajectory.
We are kind of splitting hairs here, perhaps even getting off subject, but i'll entertain. Here is what I said:
Yes, but it's not like this thread (no, not a petition) will do anything either. But I'm sure you already knew that, right Jordan?
I'm sure SGE has given thousands, neigh, tens of people great joy over the years.
I think the bolded is where we disagreed. I read that as if you were saying that they could pursue profits OR the experience, as if they were mutually exclusive. That doesn't appear to be your point.
I disagree with the bolded here as well. I don't know how you can argue with the results they've been putting up.
Well Jordan, you claimed it was a petition. And do you honestly think another of your "I hate Iger!" threads is going to change anything, no matter how you phrase it? Or are you simply here to lie and insult others again?
