Tips for Building a Balanced Board

Tips for Building a Balanced Board

As a succession planning keynote speaker, I meet a lot of family business and closely held company owners—and I find that a surprising number of them are operating without any kind of advisory board. Of course, most of them are attending my talks in the context of...
Five Reasons Your CEO is Putting Off Retirement

Five Reasons Your CEO is Putting Off Retirement

In my travels on the succession planning keynote speaker circuit, I meet a lot of business owners and CEOs. Not surprisingly, the subject of succession planning comes up often. What *is* surprising, though? The number of successful corporate leaders who claim to have...
Stepping Out, Not Down: Why Your Aging CEO Won’t Retire

Stepping Out, Not Down: Why Your Aging CEO Won’t Retire

You’ve done your succession planning homework, and you’ve taken all the right steps—whether this involved meticulously grooming younger members of the family business, or conducting an exhaustive search for a competent and closely aligned outside candidate for you...