Inside CEO succession: the essential guide to leadership transition

A comprehensive guide to planning for CEO succession, from the experts at RHRAs the demands from stakeholders for consummate leadership and good governancefrom a company's board of directors, its CEO, and its executive team increase, how the process of CEO succession is carried out has become more critical than ever before. Yet, over the past several years, a growing number of CEOs have failed early in their terms, often with devastating consequences to their companies and stockholders. By far the most common problem is a lack of ownership of the CEO succession process. Inside CEO Succession provides businesses, leaders, and boards with the strategies they need to execute their responsibilities with a heightened level of professionalism and ensure the sustained success of the companies they serve.Written by Dr. Thomas J. Saporito, CEO of RHR International, and Dr. Paul Winum, Senior Partner of RHR International, the lessons of Inside CEO Succession are rooted in RHR's long-standing history of bringing expert knowledge, experience, advice, and counsel to the issues related to CEO succession. The culmination of RHR's 65 years of experience providing expert counsel to the boards of directors of hundreds of companies, it explains how ego, role-relationships, power, and human dynamics associated with relinquishing leadership, preparing successors, and ceding power and authority to other people create undetected problems in the succession process and ultimately cause many CEOs to fail early in their tenures.Distills RHR's 65 years of experience helping businesses deal with CEO succession into one practical resourcePresents strategies to enable boards to understand their role in succession planning and how to source leadership that best fits their organization's culture and requirementsBrings together business acumen and psychological insight tohelp readers better prepare.

• ISBN: 978-1-118-20321-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 23/08/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés