New Insights on the Challenges of Leadership Transitions

ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK:  Memo to the CEO – Succession: Are You Ready?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marshall Goldsmith has been the executive coach to more than 80 CEOs at the world's leading corporations. He is Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, and teaches in its Leadership and Strategic Impact (LSI) program as well as the Tuck Executive Program (TEP).

CONTENT DESCRIPTION: This download features chapters three and seven, “Choosing Who to Develop as Your Successor” and “Making A Great Exit,” as well as the book’s introductory chapter. While this book is written as correspondence with a CEO – in the form of a series of short, sequential memos that are intended to provide practical “real-world” advice to a fictional CEO of a major corporation who is nearing the end of his or her career – the content applies to any leader who is going through a transition process. You don’t have to be a CEO to face the challenges of transition and succession.

Fill out the information at right to receive these chapter excerpts to help plan for your next transition — and to help others around you get ready for succession…

Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Press. Excerpt from Succession: Are You Ready?  Copyright 2009 Marshall Goldsmith.  All rights reserved.