How do you like to celebrate your holiday weekend? Here in the United States, we celebrate our national freedom this weekend. Many entrepreneurs spend more time planning for this holiday weekend than they do considering what their future might look like. Have you considered what your succession plan would need…
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What Can We Learn From Tim Cook’s CEO Succession Plan?
Earlier this week we talked about why Apple’s succession strategy worked. We shared that one of the traits of a successful successor is the leader must know where they are going and what key capabilities are required to help get them there. How Tim Cook began building his succession strategy.…
Continue Reading....Is Your Business Ready for the Next Generation of Leaders?
For many entrepreneurs, we are getting to the stage of life where we are looking to spend less time on our business and more time in other parts of our lives.
Continue Reading....When Succession Planning Fails
Only 40% of privately held businesses have a succession plan in place for their organization. Only 55% of family owned businesses have a plan for their next generation of leadership. Over 70% of nonprofits do not have a successor for their original founder. Why does it seem so many organizations…
Continue Reading....How To Onboard Your New Leaders
As we start 2013, many of you are promoting people to your leadership teams. So how do you onboard these new team members more quickly? Since almost every midmarket organization I’m working with is trying to get more done with fewer leaders, it’s even more critical than in the past…
Continue Reading....A Final Lesson On Leadership From Steve Jobs
With Steve Jobs announcing his resignation from Apple, I want to take a look at one of his final lessons. Knowing Steve Jobs, the title may be premature. The man has made more comebacks that anyone can keep track of, but it seems like a good time to reflect on…
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