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The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger

  I have had my fair share of reading management books during my MBA days and now I am sort of averted by them mostly because of all the heavy jargons and anecdotes typically used in those book that makes reading monotonous. So when I was searching for my next book read, I definitely wasn't looking for a business book. But you do get intrigued a little bit when Bill Gates mentions a book as 'A business book I would actually recommend'.  To be honest, I have always been fascinated by Disney as a company and what it stands for. Not only its a biggest media company in the world but also has an interesting history about how did it get here? I was looking for a book that encapsulates that journey with "Disney magic" and this was it! This book is an autobiography of the former Disney CEO Robert Iger, who has played a monumental role in making Disney the Mammoth it is now.  He is the person who led Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, Lucasfilm (which is basically all Star War