November 2025
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
6h 41m
English
Many CEO candidates we work with chuckle at our warning to be extra sensitive to the feelings of the incumbent CEO. They can’t imagine their current leader would feel queasy about the transition. CEOs tend to engender deference, and most CEO candidates see the boss as more powerful and larger than life than bosses see themselves. We have learned that the complexity of that viewpoint deserves examination because, even for those CEOs who confidently initiate the succession process and plan for it years in advance, the transition can feel existentially threatening. Many feel the weight of an impending end to the greatest, most important ...
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