1st Edition

Leadership and Strategic Succession The How and Why for Boards and CEOs

By Gry Osnes, Agnes Wilhelmsen Copyright 2021
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Based on a review of the literature and several in-depth case studies, this book suggests a strategy-as-practice framework for succession and explores leadership logic, trust and followership. This book takes the reader through the key stages and disciplines required for effective top-level succession. Corporations, growing entrepreneurial companies and family owners all must manage strong... Read more

1. Intoduction    

PART I. EXIT OF A CEO AND STRATEGIC SUCCESSION

2. Successions as Crossroads

3. Strategic Succession

4. The force of group dynamics

5. Managing feelings and emotions

6. Logic on Leadership; How successions creates leadership

Part II. ENTRY OF A CEO AND FOLLOWERSHI

7. Agent of evolution or transformation?

8. The Handover and CEO entry

9. Succession or Incubation?

10. Authority and Power

11. The Board; Trust and Followership

12. The social and psychodynamic in successions

Biography

Gry Osnes, PhD, works as an independent executive coach and researcher with family owners, entrepreneurship businesses and with chairs of boards.

Agnes Wilhelmsen, classics student, Exeter University, and research assistant for the book.