Can people finally admit Iger is the objective worse employee and CEO in Disney history? Not maybe, the. So many people still try to circlejerk him or blame Chapek when he’s the one who fricked this ship. The only good thing he did was bring Oswald back, and the only good successes he had was Frozen and buying the MCU at the right time.
All of that came to a major cost to the company’s reputation and film output. Parks got IPfied and poorly maintained, he killed off 2d animation, he somehow fricked up their cash cows, Marvel has declined and the MCU brand over saturated, Pixar got gutted entirely and might not even exist if the sequels flop, and they strayed so far into their evil image they destroyed their innocent and magical escapist image. Alongside billions lost in terrible decisions on both the entertainment and business financials side of thing
Look at this year of disasters at the box office and that’s Iger’s legacy. Destroyed Disney long term for a few quarters of nice numbers
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The shareholders disagree.
Also Disney has been a ruthless den of vipers since the Rennaisance.
shareholders are moronic sheep, they're opinion should NEVER be considered at any point
Technically they're his bosses, he has to listen to them. I'm sure you've had some stupid frick bosses you had to obey?
The CUSTOMERS are supposed to be the CEO's boss, not the shareholders. That's how a business should work, ideally. Of course, it's not how any modern business works, and that's the cause of fully 90% of problems in modern society.
>The CUSTOMERS are supposed to be the CEO's boss, not the shareholders
lol
But the shareholders shouldn't be able to override want the customers want, business should ALWAYS be about want and demand, If shareholders obstruct than a business is doomed to fail
>But the shareholders shouldn't be able to override want the customers want
Absolutely not. Shareholders and their businesses by extension absolutely have a right to tailor their business to suit specific audiences. All that matters is that those shareholders are not shielded from the consequences of their actions. If Disney were run by a bunch of idiots, and their shareholders are idiots, then running business into the ground is their problem and their prerogative. It's their money to burn.
If you want to affect change, then *you* either need to become a big enough shareholder to do that, or voice your disdain by dumping their stocks, and finding a company that does fit your world view.
If the shareholders get mad at the CEO, he retires with millions in bonuses.
It the CEO gets mad at shareholders, he plunders the company and retires with millions in bonuses.
And also, as mentioned above, he goes heavy on acquisition targets. Basically forcing others to be his shareholders.
Whose the real boss?
Yeah sure they love that their stock has been downgraded
>The shareholders disagree.
they agree. Iger chased extreme short-term profits for long-term brand damage across the board
I wouldn't say he's the worst. It's just that his only skill is buying other companies. Notice how, outside of the Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox purchases, his record his worst than Eisner. Now that the company is deeply in debt and there are no more good acquisition targets, he has no ideas.
Given he has to pay at least 27 billion for Hulu in 2024 as part of the Ill-fated Fox purchase that’s clearly not his strong suit either
He has none really
Didn't believe you and looked it up. Per Reuters in May its 27.5 billion minimum and could come due as soon as January. Jesus fricking christ. What were they thinking in 2019?
>his record his worst than Eisner.
Eisner single-handedly saved Disney from its late 70s-80s oblivion.
Igers contract stated that once he retired, he would still get paid by disney as a "consultant" for 4 years. He never left his office when he retired. Then he spent his time undermining Chapek until he replaced him.
the best part is that once he retires again, he will go back to consulting till the 4 years are up.
This is probably a moronic question but who actually has the power to fire Iger? Do the shareholders have to put it to a vote? What about the board of directors?
It's sort of like the US government/constitutional republic. Shareholders (the public) needs to vote in new board of directors (the house of representatives) who can then impeach and oust the CEO (the president).
He could also get arrested.
Igar was also responsible for all of the company buyouts that had happened starting from Pixar to FOX. Disney didn’t have the sour reputation it has today until he became CEO
That's not Chapek.
Chapek didn't make the decision to pay $35 billion in cash and $35 billion in stock for Fox (which then gave Disney majority share in Hulu), so no, he's not the worst
The Fox buyout gave Disney The Simpsons and other valuable IP.
>made Disney the highest gorssing company in the world
>retires
>Chapek frickes everything over
>is asked to come back from retirement to save the boat
>this happened twice already
There is never going to be a CEO as successful as Iger.
>Chapek fricks everything over
You can be this dumb lmao
The only blunder of Chapek’s own working was Don’t Say Gay caving in. All the films that are bombing, bad business decisions like acquiring Fox or the Hulu agreement, the Star Wars Hotel, all of that is under Iger and what’s been planned for over a decade
stop coping, homosexual.
youre the one coping homosexual
All the smallhats are the same sludge.
It's not necessarily that he's a good or bad CEO, but that he and shareholders are perversely incentivized. There are a lot of things wrong with the current market, some government-made, and some due to competition from the tech sector.
Iger's strength comes from his charisma. The employees love him, and hate Chapek. You could make the argument that Chapek was ultimately right about a lot of things, but that doesn't matter if he cannot command the loyalty and respect of the employees. He would be ineffective. This is the consequence of being a big publicly-traded company. It becomes like government, it becomes like politics. We don't have the best people in politics, we have people who are good at winning elections. We should be selecting for objective competence, but we don't.
I'm not defending Igor or Chapek. I just think the problems are too big and complex, and their are so many competing interests that need to be juggled, that one cannot pin all of these things on any one party. Igor cannot fix everything, because he's not a dictator. He needs to balance the demands of both shareholders and the company workforce. Honestly, if I were to assign blame on a percentage basis, middle management would get more more than Igor.
dont you have better things to talk about than skitzing about some dude only shareholders should know the name of
If Walt Disney were alive would Disney put him in charge instead?
Unfortunately, I think he'd try to pitch them on his libertarian utopia garden city vision and they'd laugh him off to retirement and go back to making slop while Walt decided to get drunk and ride scale model trains until the darkness took him again.
Card Walker was probably worse. Iger is still shit though.
>the only good successes he had was Frozen and buying the MCU at the right time.
You say that as if Marvel Studios isn't that big of a deal. MCU is the largest film franchise in history, it's like 3x the size of second place. To say buying Marvel was a good decision is a gross understatement.
Overall he's been good however his legacy will depend on what he does with disney+ either drop it or go all-in.
no
If he left by 2016-2017 he would be considered the best Disney CEO by their shareholders.
How? Soulless sequels and remakes oversaturation of MCU, driving Star Wars into the ground, etc
>worst disney person
that's not kathleen kennedy
buying Fox and betting everything on Disney+ were the worst frickups and I see it hard for Disney to recover, especially in this economy.
After everything Disney has done and how they treat originality, it's time to boycott that evil and corrupt company of today called Disney!
If necessary, burn that company to the ground! Boycott Disney! Boycott!
In the end, Eisner was the last good CEO of Disney and seemed to have actual vision even if it didn't always work out initially (Euro Disney). All Iger knows is buying everything and he got lucky that MCU was such an unexpected success for about a decade. Now that interest in the MCU post-Endgame has fallen offthe fact he's a moron is becoming all the more apparent.
we shouldn't be hating Eisner we should be hating the French for being a bunch of prissy homosexuals unable to enjoy a quality theme park.
Those frickers hated the Eiffel Tower until they realized people outside of France actually liked it.
Also Iger only "left" (and even then not fully) because he knew business was going to downturn because of the memedemic. He bounced and used Chapek as a scapegoat so he wouldn't get any of the blame (even though jokes like the Star Wars park are his ideas) and could come back once things started opening back up and look like the hero. A real scumbag if you ask me.
I'm glad it's all exploding on his face because it's blatantly obvious all the frickups are his.
Also didn't he plan to use his reputation and tenure as CEO to leverage a high position in broadcast television or something? There was another rumor that he wanted to also get into politics. It all paints him as just some ambitious dick whose just climbing the social corporate ladder.
>Cinemaphile follows CEOs instead of creators
>bring Oswald back
Then proceed to do almost frick all with him for a decade until recently
This. The irony is that Universal, the rightful owners of Oswald if they felt like it could use classic Oswald's design due to copyright expiration.
And if Disney raises a fuss Universal can easily say....
"Judge dude, Universal legally created Oswald a hundred years ago and that's the other thing enough time has passed that Oswald is public domain and we are only using the copyright expired version."
Open and shut case and Disney is humiliated by their rival.
Dreamworks and Universal are so powered out of spite towards Disney I can see this happening and it would be so funny.
Always would love to see Disney lose cases involving copyright or IP usage, they are such buttholes when it comes to that shit like how they didn't allow parents of a kid who passed away to put Spider-Man on their child's headstone, they absolutely deserve to be fricked in the ass legally over copyright shit.
Epic Mickey 2 bombed hard and there was no idea how to fully implement him until maybe now
I'm surprised that he wasn't featured in that weird Disney Skylanders clone that basically featured every Disney owned character.
I honestly think Iger was a plant. First came israeli Eisner. His job is to create Disney brand trust the Disney Renaissance so people would trust the israelites. After that came Iger the bastard who would cheapen and ruin Disney's brand power while acquiring other properties to ruin. And what's the ultimate goal of israeli Iger the plant? To convince everyone at Disney to sell Disney entirely to a giant mega conglomerate like Apple or Amazon. Stuff like that. Especially if it's a cheap purchase while Disney still owns things like FOX, Lucasfilm, etc due to Disney getting devalued.
Anyway I doubt Iger is a hopelessly stupid man. Stupid men don't hold these kinds of jobs for very long. israelites like Iger are raised and trained to be much better and treat idiots as disposable meat shields look at how Iger threw Chapek away to make his return.
Anyway Disney is ruined and Disney's only future is to become owned by Comcast, Microsoft, AT&T, Apple, or Amazon. Giant global conglomerates.
What I find hilarious is Iger has political aspirations. No matter whether he tries a political career or not he will always be known as the man who poisoned and killed Disney due to gross incompetence across decades. That's not a pretty reputation. I don't even like Disney, but if this israeli Israel bastard thinks people will ignore his infamous past he's better off sent to that Chinese Concentration camp that he thanked and be put to work in there until he dies of exhaustion.
Mulan being so shit is so stupid considering it's one of the easiest movies to remake in live-action. And they fricked that up. And the film got banned even harder in China somehow despite being made to cater to the CCP.
We need to get an Indian into Disney