Walt Disney Research Paper

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Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois, to his parents Elias Disney and Flora Disney. He was the fourth child in the family of his four siblings, three older brothers and a younger sister. After moving to Marceline, Missouri at a young age, Disney discovered his love for visual arts, including drawing and photography. When he was sixteen years old, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to France to work driving an ambulance. This experience in France is what shaped him into the man he became later in life. It was during this time, when his artistic abilities flourished, he soon realized that art and cartoons were his true passions (Price). After this work experience he began his first company, “Laugh-O-Grams”, which …show more content…

As was said earlier, he did not have an easy life and quite easily could have turned to being pessimistic. He continued to innovate and push forward in order to create what he had always sought out to do. One of his first major projects was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This was the first full-length animated movie ever created and it had a budget of approximately one and a half million dollars, which is extremely high for a movie at that time. This movie took all of the money that his studio had, but Walt did not give up and the movie ended up making almost eight million dollars in the box office (Loftus). Disney was a perfectionist which, in the long run, benefitted him throughout his career and as a …show more content…

During the beginning of his career, he treated his employees like family and he continued to do that with his higher up employees. But he did not always treat his lower employees with the respect they deserved. He was quite closed-minded and did not take people standing up to his ideas well. There are several stories of him firing his workers for voicing their opinions against his ideas. He was also very prejudice, which most likely came from him being raised in Missouri in the early twentieth century. This is a terrible quality to have as a leader because when you are leading people you should be open to the ideas others have and open to all people. This style of leadership does have its benefits and can be very effective, but will not make everyone happy and is the easiest style for the leader to lose control of their

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Walt Disney Research Paper