Steve Mostyn wrote a review of Noel Tichy's new book, SUCCESSION-Mastering The Make Or Break Process
His book examines why some companies fail and others succeed in training and sustaining the next generation of leaders. He reviews case studies of H-P, IBM, Yahoo, P&G, Intel, and J.C. Penny. Tichy concludes that the most important responsibility is to grow transformational leaders from the inside so that you never need to go outside.
This theory aligns nicely with our beliefs and teachings in the Facilitative Leadership Program-Building a Culture of Leadership and Accountability. In the program we spend time on The Role Descriptions necessary in high performance organizations. The role description of the CEO or President begins and ends with:
There are many more items covered in the role description as outlined in Lee Thayer's book LEADERSHIP: Thinking, Being, Doing, and none more important than these two.
Do you have at least one person ready, willing, and able to take over your role and perform it better that you do?
If not, why not?
As Tichy concludes in his book:
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