February, 2010

Succession Planning: There’s no one like you – but that’s a good thing.

Here’s the great succession planning quiz:

How many companies have strategically planned for a seamless, well orchestrated succession planning model and had it actually work out as well (or better) than they had anticipated?

  • 100% – No way.
  • 80& – You are dreaming!
  • 60% – Incredibly unlikely.
  • 40% – No chance.
  • 20% – You are getting warm.
  • None – Bingo.

Succession planning has not, does not and will not work unless we challenge and change the way we do it.

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Leading without Leading: The new direction (or lack of it) in Leadership.

It is estimated that there were about ten million books written and published in the world in the last year.

It is also estimated, that of those ten million books published, around 9,999,000 were on the topic of leadership. The rest were diet books, sporting biographies and Harry Potter. Read more