14. The High Cost of Poor Succession Planning
“Fuck off.”
—Logan Roy, nearly every episode
Four seasons and dozens of insults later, Logan is gone. Did he ever really have a succession plan? It was Kendall at the beginning, then Shiv for a while, then Roman was being groomed, then Rhea Jarrell popped up as a candidate, and back and forth we went. But ultimately, it all seems like pretense. Logan never truly intended to hand the reins to one of the kids. From the moment we saw him rewriting the family trust documents in the pilot episode, Logan’s succession plan was to live forever.
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Gregory Nagel, and Carrie Green say that the solution to poor succession planning isn’t complicated: start planning early, develop ...
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