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Succession Planning

SEC Changes the Game on CEO Succession

Alicia Whitaker | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Whole Foods, Sec, Ken Lewis, CEO Succession, Verizon, Shareholder Rights, Bank of America, Succession Planning, Integral Advisors, Bruce J. Sherman, Coca-Cola, Best Buy, Business News
Alicia Whitaker

Shareholders can now challenge the board to learn more about plans for CEO succession. This is one more action that will make it less likely that the CEO can fill the board with good old boys.

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Succession Planning 101: Lessons for the Bank of America

Alicia Whitaker | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Banking, Leadership, Succession Planning, Corporate Governance, Ken Lewis, Business News
Alicia Whitaker

Succession planning has moved from being a largely academic exercise to an element of corporate governance that regulators and investors demand.

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Job Fit 6: Circumventing the Boss

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Management Assessment, Cognitive Capability, Succession Planning, Work Complexity, Organization Structure, Executive Development, Business News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

The capacity to function in a given role is the result of several factors. Cognitive capacity is a necessary but insufficient one. Just as important are temperament, skill, knowledge, values, experience, and motivation.

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Job Fit V: Applications of Stratified Systems Theory

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Management Assessment, Succession Planning, Organizational Diagnosis, Organization Structure, Business News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

Determining what mode a person's cognitive development is following helps to map out a realistic career path.

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Job Fit IV: Maturation of Cognitive Capability

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Succession Planning, Complexity of Work, Maturation of Cognitive Capability, Organization Structure, Business News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

The predictability of individual cognitive development takes much of the guesswork out of managerial and executive development.

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Job Fit II: Characteristics of Work Strata

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Management Assessment, Succession Planning, Work Complexity, Organization Structure, Cognitive Ability, Elliott Jaques, Time Span, Business News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

Too often, the target time of completion for a job or project is left tacit or vague, creating anxiety and problems. But it can be measured precisely.

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Job Fit: Introduction to Stratified Systems Theory

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Cognitive Capability, Management Assessment, Jobs, Succession Planning, Organization Design, Business News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

Organizations talk a lot about job fit. Can we measure a human being, measure a job, and then say whether they are the same size?

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Why Too Many Successions Don't Succeed

Simon Sinek | Posted 12.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Vision, Steve Jobs, Why, Dell, Microsoft, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Howard Schultz, Apple, Corporations, Ceos, Starbucks, Succession Planning, Succession, Steve Balmer, Gates Foundation, Business News
Simon Sinek

There were three words missing from Bill Gates' goodbye speech when he officially left Microsoft in July of this year. They are three words he probab...

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