Is there a longer story somewhere about this decline ?
This piece is not really clear about the reasons _why_ younger talent wasn't being trained on those techniques. If you read the story it seems that everybody was looking forward at people learning and helping them doing so... so why was it not being done at Disney ?
The link only mentions issues with the union, but it doesn't seem to me reasonable to think that it was the only reason.
Organizations can calcify. Experienced people become incumbents, using their knowledge as a competitive advantage. New people don't respect the existing structure. It's half growing pains, half power struggle.
A healthy organization takes these competing forces and integrates them. An unhealthy one (maybe one used to an overbearing, God-like leader?) clamps down, suppresses dissent, and lets the pressure build until something breaks.
This piece is not really clear about the reasons _why_ younger talent wasn't being trained on those techniques. If you read the story it seems that everybody was looking forward at people learning and helping them doing so... so why was it not being done at Disney ?
The link only mentions issues with the union, but it doesn't seem to me reasonable to think that it was the only reason.