When Promotion Means Replacing Yourself
A VP promotion succeeded in the new seat and failed in the old one, the job nobody was prepared to backfill. The bill: two quarters of pipeline.
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Name your successor before the bus does
If you vanished for six months, who runs the company? Most founders can't answer, and the cost is daily, not disaster.
Succession planning nobody owned
She'd been VP of Engineering for three years. When she gave notice, the company realized nobody else could do the job. The 30-day handoff was a fiction.