Instead, a robust process starts by engaging the board in the development of a forward-looking skills and experience profile for the CEO.
What the best companies do is first conduct an external market scan that identifies the key candidates within the industry, then find the adjacent and best athletes across industries, and finally roughly compare all those candidates to their internal ones, using the same forward-looking skills and experience criteria.
Instead of the chief executive officer and head of human resources presenting their succession plan to the board once a year, I suggest that the process start by engaging the board in the development of a forward-looking skills-and-experience profile for the CEO.
With the distressing election three weeks off, it has come to this: a choice between Trump and the unpopular former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which has been described by the Wall Street Journal's Dorothy Rabinowitz with elegant pith: "It will be either Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton — experienced, forward-looking, indomitably determined and eminently sane.
Co-Founder and CEO, The Global Foresight Group; Professor, College of Europe; Member of multiple global advisory and expert committees; Former Senior Director, Head of Strategic Foresight, World Economic Forum Kristel Van der Elst has 17 years of experience in forward-looking strategy and policy advisory roles.
The result is a forward-looking set that builds on decades of experience.
National officials are often strongly influenced by forward-looking policy debates, projections of future developments, and international experiences.
Forward-looking magazines are hyper-aware of the need for a digital experience.
This week I will examine Social Security and Medicare benefits from her forward-looking perspective, and in a future post I will examine work experience.
This personal experience reinforces that natural selection operates on phenotypes and that evolution is not "forward-looking".
