Powerful Succession Planning

A crisis in executive talent is on the horizon as retirement looms for a large percentage of leaders. In our increasingly knowledge-driven economy, organizations are right to fear this “brain drain,” suspecting that when executives leave the firm, business may follow. Yet high-potential candidates account for less than 8 percent to 10 percent of the talent pool. Identifying, developing, and retaining these emerging leaders is a mission-critical challenge for CEOs, senior executives, managers, and HR directors.

Powerful Succession Planning provides an overview of how to develop a succession planning and management program. Leadership expert John Mattone covers all the “nuts and bolts” of an effective program and provides readers with a Succession Planning Map™ to guide them through the process. Readers will learn how to measure and calibrate performance, potential, and readiness using nine key assessments. Last but not least, a succession management diagnostic tool enables any organization to quickly gauge the health of its succession planning process.

John Mattone is widely regarded as the world's leading authority on the future trends of leadership development and talent management. He was recently named by Thinkers50 as one of the fastest rising stars in the field of leadership development. The Thinkers50 is the definitive global ranking of management thinkers and is published every two years. John was ranked as one of the world's emergent thought leaders on the 2011 Thinkers50 "Guru Radar" list. He lives in Lake Mary, Florida.