David Rosenthal: belief

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…Right, people will need someone to look to for leadership because no one's going to be looking to Michael, he's a lame duck. And, there's going to be all these people vying for power. The company will not function. You have to say external candidates and Bob Iger. And they agree and say, okay, then we'll do it. So Bob is announced as the internal candidate, and the board promises they will run an exhaustive search for external candidates. Bob, and he recounts all of this in Ride of a Lifetime, comes up with, I think, one of the most brilliant campaign framings that I have ever heard. And he actually hires a political campaign consultant to help him with this. And he realizes that, okay, I am the number two to an unpopular incumbent. I'm the vice president of a massively unpopular president right now who has just become a lame duck. Right. Every board member's first, second, and third question for me should be, why should we pick you when you were a part of the previous administration that we think sucked?…

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