The Ride of a Lifetime
Lessons Learned From Robert Iger’s 15 Years As the Disney CEO
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6 min readMay 20, 2020
Succession
When Robert Iger found out that he was going to be named the sixth CEO of the The Walt Disney Company, one of the first people he called among his family, friends, and mentors was Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Iger’s former boss, then-CEO Michael Eisner, had a rocky relationship…