don t say gay bill. it prohibits gender identity through the third grade in florida s elementary schools. on march 7, chapek told employees as we ve seen time and again, corporate statements do very little to change outcomes or minds. instead, they re often weaponized by one side or the other to further divide and inflame. he said he did not want the company to become a political football. at that time, more than 150 companies had already signed a letter opposing the legislation. two days later, chapek changed course, amid widespread outrage from disney employees and fans. he called governor desantis to express disappointment with the law. on the same day at an annual shareholders meeting he said our originally approach no matter how much attention didn t quite get the job done. he further apologized at a town hall for staff on march 21. on march 28th, desantis signed the bill into law. we ve seen corporate activism, guns after parkland, social justice after george floyd. the
but they don t run the country. well, what a shame that today, even disney is subject to the partisan divide. but here we are. whether florida should have ever passed the underlying law i say is open to fair debate. i wouldn t want any teacher instructing any of our children on sexuality between kinder garten and the third grade. then again, the law was poorly drafted in so far as the wore destructive was never defined. to prohibit classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity. the actual bill states classroom instruction on third party or gender identity may not occur. if a young student asks a teacher why a classmate has two mommes, i think the teacher to be empowered to reply family love comes in many shapes and sizes. another debate is whether disney
she s a teacher instructing england s next generation of youngsters in math. she joins me now. i read you for years. you had this column which was on business culture. it was a column that every executive read, ceos must have talked to you about it. you were in this giddy world where you were a horse whisperer to ceos and writing for the financial times. you quit it all at the point where your column was at its most influential. why? why to go become a trainee? i just had done it for too long. you are right, i had this amazing platform. i found a job i could do, something i was good at. but it was just too long. i had been at the ft for 31 years. writing that column for well over 20. i just wanted to do something new. i was sort of tired of the curby lifestyle or i thought i was