An emergency executive succession plan is always helpful even when your current executive plans to stay with you for the next ten years. Unfortunately, life isn’t that predictable.
The questions you need to answer to develop an emergency executive succession plan are educational. It helps boards or whichever leaders are planning begin to recognize that not all emergency successions are the same and that each needs slightly different preparation.
Answering the questions for the emergency executive succession plan prepares you well for other succession planning.
