Can the potential successor work well with the management team and you?
Lachlan Murdoch had once been groomed as his father's successor, working particularly closely in Australia with John Hartigan, who stepped down as chairman and chief executive of the Australian arm of his father's business, News Limited, in November.
(You probably didn't know -- because the U.S. media was too busy telling you about Justin Bieber -- that Gamal Mubarak, son of Egypt's dictator and his chosen successor, worked for years for Bank of America).
He tells how Mr. Disney and his successors worked covertly to complete 47 land deals, sometimes courting individuals who held tiny plots worth $350 an acre.
Professor Ewing left the university in 1903 to become the first Director of Naval Education at the Admiralty but Inglis remained; he was appointed a university demonstrator in mechanism by Professor Bertram Hopkinson, Ewing's successor, and worked with him to study the effects of vibration.
And Mr. Carter's last two attempts to create a worthy successor never worked out.
Our attention now turns to the appointment of a successor and work has already started on this.
For four unhappy years his successor John Swinney worked hard but lost support, as the party fought among itself over ideological direction and electoral strategy.
It is believed Mourinho offered Giggs a role within the youth set-up but the 42-year-old has decided his future lies elsewhere, having not been considered as Van Gaal's successor after working under the Dutchman, who was sacked in May after two years as manager at Old Trafford.
A "This Land" column shared how the pastor's father had left segregated Alabama, gathered together a congregation in Springfield, and bought an old downtown church to use as a house of worship; how his eldest son and successor, Bryant, worked for years to raise the money to build a new church on the city's outskirts; and how, when it burned down, he just knew that racism had fueled the fire.
