Your CEO Succession Playbook: How to Pass the Torch So Everyone Wins

by Natalie Michael, Brian Conlin

You've heard it 50% of all CEO succession attempts fail. Which means 50% must succeed! Learn from leaders who beat the odds in Your CEO Succession Playbook .

For Boards and transitioning CEOs, consider this book your strategic companion from the start of the process right through to the hand-off, and discover how to address common concerns along the way. Learn why a CEO should start a conversation about succession planning early, even if they have no intention of leaving their role anytime soon. Stay above the fray by mitigating and managing power plays. And understand how to build a practical framework to help the departing CEO start a new life chapter that moves from success to significance.

Your CEO Succession Playbook is a 6-phase game plan for each step in the CEO succession process, one that doesn't require you to work harder and faster,but rather more intentionally. With these strategies, you will build trust,avoid politics, and gain confidence in your leadership pipeline.

Among dozens of tactics and a suite of tools, you will

220 pages, Paperback

Published September 26, 2017

About the author

If you’re trying to improve yourself or boost the value of a team meeting or energize a strategy session, you simply need to ask the right question. That’s Natalie’s super power. She asks leaders the right questions. For the last 15 years, Natalie Michael, author of The Duck and the Butterfly, has coached hundreds of executives all over the world with clients in Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurial startups.

In this book, Natalie shares her most powerful coaching questions to help you lead your life, lead others, lead organizations and create a positive difference in the world.

By the time you finish this book, you’ll know what coaching questions to ask to change people’s lives for the better, and take your business to new heights.

Reviews

[Caitlin Garrison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although this book recommended for CEO's and board members, I think that other lower level employees can benefit from reading this book. The book is broken down into six major sections: be visionary, be proactive, be curious, be results-oriented, be thoughtful, be self-aware. In addition to the book, there is a website available that offers additional tools. The author believes there is a need for this book since a good chunk of businesses do not have a formal CEO succession process in place. Even those that do, tend to be disappointed with the results. Majority of CEO's interviewed in this book are from Canada and include various business backgrounds. What was appealing about this book was the layout of each chapter. The author did an excellent job about explaining her “be X”. From there she included real life examples of what did and didn't work. She also offered up some self coaching questions to help further solidify the point. The book was very easy to understand and relate to, even if you aren't in immediate line to become a CEO.

[Anthony Okanlawon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical and helpful book for aspiring, new, and existing CEOs

I was not sure what to expect on a CEO playbook, I thought it would be more technical and somewhat limited in its approach. I appreciated the fact that Michael and Conlin see CEOs as human beings. Individuals who need to develop themselves in weaker areas and hone in on their strengths.
Michael and Conlin also being former CEOs who now coach and develop other leaders is a plus because they share a wealth of experience through real life stories that anyone can relate to. It is clearly demonstrated that leaders are human beings first, can be transparent about their struggles but continually work on themselves as they work on building others or enterprises.