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How to “Freshen up” your Stale Succession Planning Process

Great Leadership By Dan

I picked this question because I just attended an event in Boston called “Secrets of Succession”, a moderated panel discussion with a CHRO, a succession planning consultant and executive coach, and a CEO and Board member. Are you still creating thick binders, and probably drowning your executives in bureaucracy?

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Who's Moving Their Company Beyond Bureaucracy?

Harvard Business Review

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. We asked some big questions in our quest to bust bureaucracy: What does it mean to build an organization in which everyone is aligned and inspired by a deeply-felt sense of purpose?