leadership transition

Good leaders create less work because they remove the coordination, interpretation, and rework that unclear priorities and unresolved tradeoffs create downstream. That leadership clarity allows decisions to move closer to the work without constant explanation or escalation. Less work doesn’t mean less ambition. It means less translation between what leadership intends and what the organization…

CEO Succession planning at-a-glance: Many CEO succession processes become vulnerable before the search ever starts. The problem is not always the candidate pool. It is that the organization has never aligned on what the next CEO must be prepared to accomplish. Ask five board members what the company needs in its next CEO and you’ll get five different answers: someone with more…