April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
5h 13m
English
IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, it took the College of Cardinals almost three years to anoint a successor to Pope Clement IV. To break the stalemate, one of history’s most bitter organizational deadlocks, church officials began limiting the food and drink they provided the voting cardinals, eventually giving them just bread and water. Fortunately, today’s cardinals don’t seem to need such harsh incentives: It took them less than a week to choose Benedict XVI.
When it comes to succession planning (and, by extension, leadership development) in the business world, corporate boards could do with a similar sense of urgency—though we wouldn’t necessarily ...
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