For Your Act 2, Do Something Different from Act 1 - Bob Iger Seems to Have Gotten Very Stuck in Disney Past

 "Iger needs to dream up better ideas than spending more on parks." - Financial Times, September 21, 2023

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the one-time role model for effective corporate leadership - Bob Iger - may not be up to the complexity of turning around a distressed empire. The history of business clearly indicates that when major players return for a second act they have to do things very differently. Iger doesn't seem enough there. The possible sale of ABC would be a minor move. 

Think about it. After his fall from grace, including prison, Michael Milken developed a new identity in philanthropy. Later he circled back to being a presence in finance. 

Fired from Ford where he had headed marketing, Lee Iacocca became a CEO (a very different role) at near-bankrupt Chrysler. There he introduced what were then radical ideas. That worked, at least for a while. 

Voted back in by the partners last May, Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp unleashed a disruption throughout the legal sector through bold competitor raids. That distracted from earlier scandals such as detailed in "The Caesar's Palace Coup." 

A simple way of explaining Iger's stumbles - including the ham-handed way he navigated the Writers' strike - is the old business adage: Nothing fails like success. In time, the born-again Chrysler was back in the soup. No surprise either, one-time hero of the working man Iacocca eventually became a pariah in blue-collar Detroit. 



In my intuitive coaching and Tarot career readings I help clients to constantly put on a "new pair of glasses" to view their jobs, entrepreneurial ventures and their personal brands. Everything changes, sometimes several times a day. A useful practice is to stop the day to look at what could be shifting.

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