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“You can never tell what’s around the corner”: Here’s how to nail succession planning

Chartered Management Institute

Advice: “You can never tell what’s around the corner”: Here’s how to nail succession planning Written by Annie Makoff-Clark Tuesday 09 January 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Recruiting a successor is no easy task — who should take over, and when? To hire internally or externally?

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Seven Steps to Start a Consulting Business

Chart Your Course

According to MBO Partners, a support service for independent consultants, boomers are a fast growing sector of the independent workforce. In its 2012 Independent Workforce Index, MBO Partners estimates that boomers account for around a third of all independent consultants. Will they retire, work part-time or start new endeavors?

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Guest Blogger George L. Morrisey: Are You Ready for Strategic Planning?

leaderCommunicator

The process of strategic planning may be reduced to that of just another paperwork exercise unless it is launched with a clear understanding on the part of those involved concerning: How much time is required? What do we expect the strategic plan to do for us? In prior strategic planning efforts, what went well?

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

And he believed that managers wrongly apply incentive pay plans, forced rankings, and all sorts of carrots and sticks to create the illusion of control without solving root performance problems. Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Substitute leadership methods for improvement. Eliminate MBO.

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