What to Ask the Person in the Mirror

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Succession Planning and Delegation

Owning the Challenge of Developing Successors in Your Organization

Do you have a succession-planning process for key positions?

Have you identified potential successors for your job?

If not, what is stopping you?

Do you delegate sufficiently?

Have you become a decision-making bottleneck?

One of the critical roles of a leader is “getting the right people in the right seats.” Put another way, attracting, retaining, and developing talented people—and appropriately deploying them in important positions—is vital to the success of most organizations. If you’re going to achieve your vision and execute major priorities at a high level of excellence, you need to have developed the talent necessary to get the job ...