With the ability to successfully navigate ambiguity and complexity, these CEOs were equipped to take on risk and lead in an uncertain, rapidly changing world — exactly what is needed as we develop succession pipelines for our future.
Entry-level employees learning the ropes garner more than their share of managers' time, and those transitioning toward retirement pull executives' focus by necessity as they work to develop succession plans.
Well-run boards have always labored to develop succession plans that minimize the risks in any CEO succession.
Because of this, combined with his board's top priority of CEO succession planning for the organization's sustainability, he knew he had to face his discomfort to develop succession from within the executive team.
Organizations need to develop succession plans 15 years out, which also requires talent mapping, understanding not only the talent you need to be competitive in the market today but also tomorrow, and how that talent will differ, what skills will be required, and what you must do to attract or develop that talent.
As for the complaints that he dragged his feet in developing a succession plan, Mr. Meyer said: "I was the architect of this, the sole architect of this.
Mr. Bellamy, 68, said that he planned to step down in the next couple of years, and that Penumbra is developing a succession plan.
Developing a succession plan is one of a board's chief responsibilities, but only half of companies actively groom executives, according to a 2010 study by Stanford University's Rock Center for Corporate Governance and Heidrick & Struggles, the executive search firm that is leading Microsoft's search.
Vail is also developing a succession management program.
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