Bob Iger Reveals That He Wrote a Six-Page Letter to Josh D’Amaro and Left It In His Desk

When Bob Iger officially stepped aside as CEO of The Walt Disney Co. earlier this year to hand the keys to the kingdom to Josh D’Amaro, he decided to take a cue from an Oval Office tradition. “I decided I would write my successor a letter and leave it in his desk, as we’ve heard Presidents of the United States have done recently. And I wanted it to be short. It ended up being six pages long,” Iger said in an interview published by the Harvard Business Review on Thursday. “One of the things that I did write is be aware of how much influence you have over the company. You’re inheriting a company that’s 103 years old, and you think, well,…