????迪士尼公司有了新的首席運營官，他就是在該公司管理層任職已久的湯姆?斯塔格斯。更重要的是，作為娛樂業巨頭，迪士尼終于有了一位半官方的首席執行官繼任者。現任CEO鮑伯?艾格將在三年后卸任。

????斯塔格斯目前負責迪士尼樂園度假區業務，一直是傳聞中的兩名CEO職位競逐者之一。另一位是目前擔任首席財務官職務的杰伊?羅思樂（關于羅思樂會不會留在迪士尼尚無官方消息，但留任的可能性似乎不大，因為羅思樂最近已經決定不與公司續約）。五年前，艾格曾將斯塔格斯和羅思樂的職務對調。斯塔格斯1990年進入迪士尼擔任經理，后一路升至首席財務官。正是這次對調讓他成為了迪士尼樂園度假區業務的負責人。

????艾格在周四上午發布的新聞稿中說：“作為一名高管，湯姆有著了不起的經驗、才干和全面性。在他的領導下，迪士尼樂園度假區業務得到了前所未有的發展和擴張，其中包括上海迪士尼樂園的興建。他的業務領導力已經得到證明，他也已經在迪士尼首席財務官的位置上取得了成功，這讓他成為理想的首席運營官人選，進而可以參與到迪士尼的各項業務之中。”

????迪士尼的收入已連續四年創下新高。不過，近幾周人們向迪士尼樂園投來了審視的目光，原因是南加州迪士尼樂園成了麻疹疫情的源頭，而上海迪士尼樂園又推遲了開園時間。

????斯塔格斯在迪士尼有著輝煌的業績記錄，而且也曾在公司不同業務部門歷練過多年。不過，雖然首席運營官讓他離CEO寶座更進了一步——艾格升任CEO前就曾經干了五年的COO，一位和迪士尼關系密切的消息人士向《財富》雜志透露，這并不意味著斯塔格斯一定會成為CEO。該消息人士稱，這次升職既是斯塔格斯高管生涯的進一步發展，也是公司從CEO候選人的角度對他進行考察。這還會讓他有機會更加頻繁地與迪士尼的董事會和外界人士打交道。

????隨后迪士尼還可能出現其他變化。首先，還不清楚現任首席財務官羅思樂是否會留任。而且艾格目前還需要尋找相關人選，以接手斯塔格斯負責的樂園度假區業務。目前這項業務還由他暫時兼管，而他的繼任者很可能從公司內部產生。

????但可以肯定的是，艾格不大愿意看到權力交接出現混亂，或者說，希望避免出現自己的前任邁克爾?艾斯納被趕下臺后自己被提拔為CEO時的局面。因此，雖然距離卸任還有三年時間——屆時艾格將不再與迪士尼續約——但我們很可能在不久之后便可以進一步獲悉艾格的權力移交計劃。（財富中文網）

????譯者：Charlie

????審稿：李翔

????The Walt Disney Company has a new chief operating officer: longtime company executive Tom Staggs. More importantly, the entertainment giant finally has a semi-official heir apparent to the CEO job. Its current chief executive, Bob Iger, is set to retire from Disney in three years.

????Staggs, head of the company’s parks and resorts business, had been one of two rumored contenders for the top job. The other was current CFO Jay Rasulo. (There’s no official word on whether Rasulo will stay with the company, though it seems unlikely as he recently opted not to renew his contract.) Five years ago, Iger asked Staggs and Rasulo to swap jobs. That’s when Staggs, who started at Disney in 1990 as a manager and worked his way up to CFO, became the head of the parks and resorts division.

????“Tom is an incredibly experienced, talented and versatile executive who has led parks and resorts during a time of unprecedented growth and expansion, including the construction of Shanghai Disney Resort,” Iger said in a press release issued Thursday morning. “His proven ability to lead a business as well as his successful tenure as Disney’s former CFO make him an ideal chief operating officer, expanding his portfolio into all the company’s businesses.”

????Disney DIS 1.34% has been on a tear, with four straight years of record-breaking revenues. But its parks business has been under scrutiny in recent weeks after a measles outbreak was linked to its Southern California parks and it pushed back the launch of an upcoming resort in Shanghai, China.

????Staggs has a strong track record at Disney and has spent years working across the company’s diversified business units. While the COO position puts him one step closer towards the top job—Iger spent five years as COO before his promotion to CEO—a source close to the company tells Fortune that it does not mean the job is guaranteed. According to the source, the promotion will position Staggs for further executive development as well as scrutiny for the CEO role. It will also give him an opportunity to more frequently face the company’s board and an external audience.

????Other changes may follow suit at Disney. For starters, it’s not clear that current CFO Rasulo will stay with the company. And Iger now needs to find someone—most likely an internal candidate—to run the parks and resorts business, which will remain in Stagg’s hands for the time being.

????One thing is clear: Iger will likely want to avoid a messy handover, à la his promotion following the ousting of former CEO Michael Eisner. So while the CEO has another three years to go—he won’t extend his contract again—it’s likely we’ll be hearing more about his succession planning long before.