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Heavy Lies the Mickey Ears
The Magic Kingdom’s most successful CEOs each delivered radical change—and left a leadership crisis behind. Can Bob Iger end his tenure differently?
All three ruled the Magic Kingdom for at least two decades, oversaw creative and commercial renaissances at the company, and to varying degrees became celebrities in their own right. We saw this play out recently with Iger, who had to return as CEO of the company barely a year after formally departing it because his own handpicked successor turned out to be a disaster. “Being the head of Disney is a very strong drug and it’s very hard to let go,” as The Hollywood Reporter ’s Kim Masters tells us in the episode.
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