I even took a moment before I walked into the room to look again at Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena” speech, which has long been an inspiration: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.” My face wasn’t quite marred by dust and sweat and blood, and the Disney boardroom wasn’t the harshest of arenas. But I had to go in there and fight for something I knew was a risk. If
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