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Practical succession management : how to future-proof your organization

This text is a response to the increasing relevance of proactive succession management but the widespread difficulty of making it happen. The author focuses on the business realities of succession management rather than provide a conceptualisation of how it might work in principle.
Print Book, English, ©2005
Gower, Aldershot, Hants, England, ©2005
xiii, 252 pages ; 25 cm
9780566085703, 0566085704
1131488543
Contents: List of figures; Preface; An overview of succession management. Part I The Context for Succession Management: The business imperative; The battle-grounds for succession; Rethinking leadership progression. Part II Formulating a Succession Game-plan: Managing the appointments process: who gets which job?; Identifying business risk: how resilient is the organisation?; Creating a talent blueprint; Strengthening the leadership pipeline: identifying and developing talent. Part III Implementing Sustainable Succession Management: The 'nuts and bolts' of succession management; Bibliography; Index.