The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Robert Iger transformed Disney from a struggling animation studio into the most dominant entertainment empire of the 21st century through four acquisitions totaling over $86 billion: Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox. His Ten Core Principles of Leadership guided decisions from the Steve Jobs negotiations that saved Pixar's creative culture to the Shanghai Disneyland project requiring years of Chinese government relationship-building. The Disney+ launch, reaching ten million subscribers on day one, proved his conviction that leaders must direct technological change rather than resist it.

You'll learn:

- Why cultural fit matters more than financial analysis in acquisitions

- How granting creative autonomy to Kevin Feige built the MCU

- The transparency principle that guided the John Lasseter crisis response