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> Who cares I worked until 2am every day for weeks while they left at 5pm because they "weren't coders". > Sorry, ranting a bit. Rant away! I don't want to hi
by csixty4 11y ago
> Who cares I worked until 2am every day for weeks while they left at 5pm because they "weren't coders".
> Sorry, ranting a bit.
Rant away! I don't want to hijack this thread, but there's a story I like to share with people when they become new managers. It's from Herb Ryman, one of the first Disney Imagineers.
"The year was 1953. Walt [Disney] said, ‘Hi Herbie. I’m over here at the studio. I wonder if you could come over here. Just come the way you are, I’ll be out front waiting for you.’ I was curious, and flattered that he picked up the phone and called me. I had no idea what he wanted.
He met me out front and shook my hand saying, ‘Hi Herbie, we’re in the Zorro building.’ So we went in, and I asked what this was all about. He said, ‘My brother Roy has to go to New York on Monday morning. He’s got to talk to some bankers there. You know bankers don’t have any imagination, none at all. You have to show them what you are going to do. Roy has to show them what this place is going to look like.’ And I said, ‘Well, I’d like to see what this place is going to look like, too. Where have you got all this stuff?’ I thought maybe it was in the other room. Walt said, ‘You’re going to do it.’ I said, ‘No I’m not.’ There was a brief pause. Walt paced back and forth- we were alone in the room.
He went over to the corner and he turned his head around with his back to me and said, ‘Will you do it if I stay here with you?’
‘Yes, I’ll do it if you stay here.’"
- scraymer 11y ago(source) Working with Walt: Interviews with Disney Artists - https://books.google.ca/books?id=QXhbAbzAsngC&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176&dq=Herb+Ryman+Will+you+do+it+if+I+stay+here+with+you&source=bl&ots=5L_kX0GQXg&sig=34N5ZwZ84063KvSAzBXUnQmcEiA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHmPuh8YHLAhWKn4MKHdKWCxMQ6AEIHDAA#v=snippet&q=%22Well%2C%20if%20I%20stay%20here%20with%20you%2C%20will%20you%20do%20something%3F%22&f=false https://books.google.ca/books?id=QXhbAbzAsngC&pg=PA176&lpg=P...
- hitekker 11y agoGoogling "Will you do it if I stay here with you?" with the quotation marks returns four results, two of which are this comment. One is a google book with the exact passage, and the last is a blog post quoting said book. Just something interesting I noticed.
- csixty4 11y agoI wish I could remember where I first came across it. I had just read Lee Cockerell's "Creating Magic", and I went into a sort of deep dive for leadership lessons from Disney. This coincided with a fit of nostalgia for 1980's EPCOT, which drove my wife a bit crazy. You can blame the Horizons Resurrected project for that. It was Disney practically 24/7 for a couple months there. I don't know if the Yesterland blog post is the one you came across, but they do a good job cataloging the different retellings of the story and even include some of the artwork Herb put together that weekend. Definitely worth a read. http://www.yesterland.com/ryman.html http://www.yesterland.com/ryman.html