Bye bye Roy!

Roy Disney is het afgetrapt bij "The Walt Disney Company", en heeft o.a. volgende scherpe kritiekjes in zijn ontslagbrief geschreven: (o.a. over Michael Eisner, de CEO)


... after 19 years at the helm you are no longer the best person to run the Walt Disney Company. You had a very successful first 10-plus years at the company in partnership with Frank Wells, for which I salute you. But, since Frank's untimely death in 1994, the Company has lost its focus, its creative energy, and its heritage ... As I have said ... this Company, under your leadership has failed during the last seven years in many ways: Your consistent micro-management of everyone around you with the resulting loss of morale throughout the Company ... The timidity of your investments in our theme park business. At Disney's California Adventure, Paris and now in Hong Kong, you have tried to build parks "on the cheap" and they show it and the attendance figures reflect it ... The perception by all of our stakeholders -- consumers, investors, employees, distributors and suppliers -- that the company is rapacious, soul-less, and always looking for the "quick buck" rather than long-term value which is leading to a loss of public trust ... The creative brain drain of the last several years, which is real and continuing, and damages our Company with the loss of every talented employee ... Your failure to establish and build constructive relationships with creative partners, especially Pixar, Miramax, and the cable companies distributing our products ...