Years ago, my former editor, Adam Lashinsky, told me I should write a piece about how Bob Iger would never truly leave the Walt Disney Company. This was after I’d written a 2014 cover story on Iger, detailing why he had become one of the most admired CEOs in entertainment and media history. And it was after the Disney board had already extended the former weatherman’s (yes, really!) contract multiple times, despite his multiple proclamations that he would soon retire.
I didn’t write that piece back then. But you can probably guess what I found myself writing to my former boss Sunday evening: “YOU WERE RIGHT.”
