Apple Can Learn From Disney

Kevin Kelleher says to get a better idea how Apple might fare without Steve Jobs’s leadership, it’s helpful to look at another hugely successful American company that decades ago lost its iconic CEO — Walt Disney Co. “Like Apple, Disney started out in a California garage, growing in time into a global brand that became a part of the everyday culture of millions of people. While Apple’s achievement was in making personal computers so intuitive they became intimately integrated with our lives, Disney was a dream factory, creating stories and images that shaped childhood imaginations for generations.”