Developing Compelling Outcomes Through Succession Planning

Developing Compelling Outcomes Through Succession Planning

Some people are more effective than others when it comes to succession planning.  A few people are good at it because they have multiple generations of experience supporting them; others are good at it because they have the right team of trusted advisors looking after...
Developing Compelling Outcomes Through Succession Planning

The Incentive Trap – Are You Caught Up In It?

Here’s something that may challenge your current thinking about incentives.  Not all incentive program motivate better and higher levels of performance.  In fact, a good many of them have just the opposite effect; or, they serve as a source of motivation for the wrong...
Developing Compelling Outcomes Through Succession Planning

Help! My Business Has Become a Country Club!

One of many concerns related to succession planning focuses on how the business is performing.  It is really quite common to have an owner or a senior leadership team tell us that their employees are among the finest, most loyal, most trustworthy, industry savvy...
Developing Compelling Outcomes Through Succession Planning

Should I Hire People I Do Not Like?

Of course not.  No. Never.   Roy Reiman, publisher and philanthropist, writes and speaks about the virtues of hiring people you like and the positive impact that has on building or sustaining an accepting culture. Hiring people you do not like almost certainly leads...
Developing Compelling Outcomes Through Succession Planning

Succession Planning and the “Right Time” Myth

“I probably should do something about succession planning, but the timing just doesn’t seem to be right.  There’s a wedding coming up, we’ve got another grandchild on the way, and none of our children seem to want to have anything to do with...