Situation The main character in this story was the COO of a high‐tech company, of middle‐market size. The CEO was extremely ambivalent...

Situation A fast-track executive was dissatisfied with her career path and was close to exiting. Her boss was distressed when he learned...

To make the most of mentoring as a succession planning tool, activities must be flexible and focused on the human aspect of the...

In the beginning, corporate America created replacement planning. Its purpose was to fill the void left by a key executive’s untimely...

Once upon a time, companies did performance appraisals. The focus was solely on performance evaluation-a judgmental, report-card kind of...

There’s a bit of a mystery that plays out every day in virtually every organization no matter the size, the industry or the profit...