Walt Disney, A Visionary Who Was Crazy Like a Mous

September 15, 2015, 09:23 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/business/media/w...

Here is something that might surprise you: Walt Disney, that icon of American ingenuity, was in financial straits through most of his career. You probably thought he would have been a business genius — a model for others to study. But Disney was an atrocious businessman, constantly running his company into the ground. At the same time, though, he was a corporate visionary whose aversion to typical business practices led to the colossus that the Walt Disney Company became.