[Other posts in this series can be found here.] Starting with my original Internet essay “Walt Disney and His Business Philosophy in Action” as a sketched out framework, I began to fill in the chronology of Walt’s career based on my own assessment of key events and without getting caught up in too much detail. […]
[Other posts in this series can be found here.] Here is the basic process I followed in writing TBWD, although it wasn’t exactly this way. A project of this size doesn’t unfold in a purely linear fashion. You do some of this then you do some of that. You’re reading and you want to capture some […]
[Other posts in this series can be found here.] One aspect of my mission, purpose, and motivation in writing The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success, a book about the business success of Walt Disney, was for it to be an inspiring case study about entrepreneurship. I wanted the book […]
A reader with an interest in writing recently asked me how I organized the wealth of information that is in my book, The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success (Theme Park Press, 2017). Here is the question: I have a question about your writing and research methods. This is a […]
In 1978 I visited Disneyland for the first time. Here’s my trip diary entry for that day.
I posted what follows on the Disney History Institute Facebook page (February 1, 2019) about the value of Neal Gabler’s 2006 biography, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, and why I think Gabler fundamentally misunderstood Walt Disney: Gabler’s book is excellent for the amount of research he put into it and shares throughout […]
In this post I discuss the inherent connection between business purpose and ethical behaviour as two components of the larger category of human action.
With the creation of Snow White, Walt Disney demonstrated the true characteristics of entrepreneurship.
© 2018, Barry L. Linetsky. All Rights Reserved. When the scope of science as the act of systematic discovery of knowledge is confined to the experimental methods appropriate to the study of the physical causality by an underlying ideological commitment to mechanical materialism, positivism, and empiricism, however well intentioned, no room is left for seeking […]
© 2018, Barry L. Linetsky. All Rights Reserved. It is widely accepted by many leading scientists and intellectuals that self-awareness of volitional consciousness is a phenomenological illusion somehow generated by unconscious material brain matter. Because they reject the axiomatic status of existence, identity, and consciousness, and inappropriately demand proof for their validity that cannot be forthcoming […]
© 2018, Barry L. Linetsky. All Rights Reserved. As we have seen, there seems to be a significant number of modern scientists and influential intellectuals who, in the post-modernist tradition, want to obliterate the human mind by obliterating the need for a science of epistemology. Their pretense that they are advocates of reason under the […]
© 2018, Barry L. Linetsky. All Rights Reserved. An outright attack on the efficacy of the human mind, not just as the allegorical locus of human agency, but on the very existence of agency, is an outright attack on humanity, society, economy, and human survival itself. When that attack it is done in the name […]