7) For premiere of Pinocchio Walt hired 11 midgets, dressed them up like little puppet and put them on top of Radio City Music Hall in New York with a full day's supply of food and wine. The idea was they would wave hello to little children entering into theater. By middle of hot afternoon, there were 11 drunken naked midgets running around top of marquee, screaming obscenities at crowd below. The most embarrassed people were police who had to climb up ladders and take little fellows off in pillowcases.

8) Walt never lived to see Fantasia become a success. 1940 audiences were put off by it's lack of a story. Also final scene, The Night On Bald Mountain sequence with devil damning souls of dead, was considered unfit for children.

9) In 1942, Walt was in attendance for premiere of Bambi. In dramatic scene where Bambi's mother died, Bambi was shown wandering through meadow shouting," Mother! Where are you, Mother?" A teenage girl seated in balcony shouted out, " Here I am Bambi!" The audience broke into laughter except for red-faced Walt who concluded correctly that war-time was not best time to release a film about love-life of a deer.

10) The sentimental Pollyanna in 1960 made Walt cry at studio screening but failed at box office. Walt concluded that title was off-putting for young boys.

Walt was human, he suffered through many fits of anger and depression through his many trials. Yet he learned from each setback, and continued to take even bigger risks which combined with wisdom that experiencing failure can provide, led to fabulous financial rewards.

Stephen Schochet is the author and narrator of two highly acclaimed audiobooks "Fascinating Walt Disney" and "Tales Of Hollywood". Hear RealAudio samples at www.hollywoodstories.com.

Clock Makers are hard to come by; they are most likely already employed. However, a true Clock Maker is always looking to improve their situation as well as situation of others. What they want is a challenge, “But it will cost you”! Before hiring a “Clock Maker” you have to decide if you are committed to revolution. That is what they will stir up within your organization, a “Revolution”! It will not be a commitment to change. Change, is a “Buzz” word that floats across industries and is consistently used by consultants and wannabe Clock Makers. In other words, they are straddling fence, one foot is on change side and other is on the, “continue to operate same” side. What we must do is strive for “Revolutionary improvements by taking evolutionary steps”! And it must begin at top! We must force leaders within our organization to become “Clock Makers”! Especially in our warehouse! Because, they are usually least educated people within company. I don’t mean education from a traditional standpoint; I mean what they have learned since High school or College. How many books have they read on logistics? How many seminars have they attended about warehousing and inventory control? How many associations do they belong to? Probably, none, none and none! And believe it or not we promote lack of continuing education by not giving them opportunity to revolutionize warehouse. When they try to attend a seminar, we shoot them down by saying, “It won’t provide any value and company won’t pay for it”. Yet sales personnel attend seminars; we have consultants and motivational speakers come in and speak with our sales force and look at how much we have grown by doing so. If it helped your sales force can’t it help your warehouse?

Right now, you probably have someone hiring and firing warehouse personnel who has never attended a course on interviewing techniques or labor laws. You have someone controlling millions of dollars of inventory that could not tell you last time they attended a course or read a book about inventory control. And we wonder why our inventory is so inaccurate. You have someone “Non-Verbally” communicating with your customers, more than anyone else in organization, and they do not even know who your most profitable customers are. And often we justify this by saying, “they are doing a good job!”

The next time you take a physical inventory and you look at numbers, accuracy of it will tell you how good of a job they have done. The next time a sales person tells you about a customer you lost because of shipping errors, that will tell you how good of a job they have done. The next time you look at turnover in warehouse, that will tell you how good of a job they have done. The next time you look at number of returns you process, that will tell you how good of a job they have done. And finally, next time you walk through your warehouse and you see receiving that has not been completed for a few days, and personnel that do not seem busy, that will tell you how good of a job they have done. Ultimately, it will tell you if you have hired a “Time Keeper or a Clock Maker”!