Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Succession Planning”
As a talent geek, I love it when succession planning rumors fly at big public companies. CEO succession is the most complex, challenging work an HR pro can do, and it is fascinating to watch a company bungle it. Thank you, Airbus, for providing us our case study for the day. We’ll let HR pros from across the country weigh …
On a recent road trip to Kentucky to watch my FSU Seminoles get absolutely slaughtered on the football field, I hopped on the Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History podcast train. The podcast is a ten episode series where Gladwell revisits and reinterprets something from the past that has been universally misunderstood. My Little Hundred Million is the third episode in a …
If you’re looking for more thoughts on how to develop talent, join FOT for our webinar on Using Assessments to Build Your Superteam (click this link to register). You’re there, deep in conversation, counseling a high potential early in her career. She wants to move up, and you think she has the chops. You want to give her the opportunity to …
My grandpa used to sit on the back porch, drinking Stag beer and sharing his life philosophies with anyone who would listen. Drinking and philosophizing. Good work if you can get it. These pearls of wisdom usually involved a type of sociological classification. He would sit in his rocking chair and trot out gems like: You either love cats or …
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my own mortality. I’ve also been thinking a lot about why succession sucks. Like duh. It’s not that we lack the skills, processes and/or software for proper succession. It’s that the conversation at its very core is an emotional Beirut for all parties involved. We’re all avoiding the concept of… dude, your …
