Succession Planning—Overweight and Underperforming

Abstract

Succession planning has become an event of magnificent proportions. Typically, thousands of managerial hours are expended to prepare flashy presentations and lengthy tomes identifying candidates for jobs that probably will not exist in three years and developmental plans that no more equip tomorrow's managers to win the global fight for competitive position than a Dick‐and‐Jane reading primer.

Citation

Rhodes, D.W. (1988), "Succession Planning—Overweight and Underperforming", Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 9 No. 6, pp. 62-64. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb039274