Bob’s Iger’s Book: Memoir Hits Shelves September
Disney CEO Bob Iger’s book The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company hits shelves in September.
Bob Iger’s Book
Deadline’s Mike Fleming reported:
Random House has set a September 23 date to publish [the Disney CEO’s memoir]; the leadership and management book that Disney chief Bob Iger wrote with Joel Lovell. According to RH, Iger will “share the ideas, strategies, and values he has used to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world.”
Shrewd Acquisitions


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The reasons to be excited are myriad, but synopsized nicely by Fleming who added:
No Hollywood exec has flourished more in an historically unprecedented period of disruption in Hollywood than Iger. His shrewd acquisitions of Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel, would have been enough for some, but it was a warmup to his recent efforts of buying 21st Century Fox, and then Hulu, and setting a November launch for the studio’s groundbreaking streaming service, Disney +.


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Then, in a release, Bob Iger wrote:
The ideas in this book strike me as universal… Not just to the aspiring CEOs of the world, but to anyone wanting to feel less fearful, more confidently themselves, as they navigate their professional and even personal lives.
Four Important Ideas


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• Fairness. Treat people decently, with empathy, and be accessible to them.In the same release Penguin Random House added, “This book is about the relentless curiosity that has driven Iger for forty-five years, since the day he started as the lowliest studio grunt at ABC.”It’s also about thoughtfulness and respect, and a decency-over-dollars approach that has become the bedrock of every project and partnership Iger pursues; from a deep friendship with Steve Jobs in his final years to an abiding love of the Star Wars mythology.”