![]() ![]() ![]() There are drop-everything events, and there are others when you say to yourself, This is serious, I need to be engaged right now, but I also need to extricate myself and focus on other things and return to this later. You have to rely on your own internal "threat scale". When the unexpected does happen, a kind of instinctive triage kicks in. But I'm also all too aware of the symbolic power of Disney as a target, and the one thing that weighs heavily on me is the knowledge that no matter how vigilant we are, we can't prepare for everything. I tend to approach bad news as a problem that can be worked through and solved, something I have control over rather than something happening to me. Unfortunately, the author wrote the book too early, unaware, that the probably biggest challenge of his career was still to come: the Covid-19 pandemic. And I found it interesting to see how some of the deals ( Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox) were done that made Disney to what it is today. I enjoyed The Ride of a Lifetime and liked the glimpse behind the scenes of one of the most iconic US companies (almost) everyone knows. The book is split into two parts of about equal length: the time before he became CEO of The Walt Disney Company, and the 15 years afterwards as its CEO. ![]() He started his career at American Broadcasting Company and, after its acquisition, continued it at The Walt Disney Company, where he became CEO and served in this role for 15 years. In The Ride of a Lifetime the author talks about his career and the lessons learned along the way. ![]()
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