Leadership and strategic succession : the how and why for boards and CEOs / Gry Osnes and contributing author Agnes Wilhelmsen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I: Exit of a CEO and strategic succession -- Successions as crossroads -- Strategic successions -- The force of group dynamics -- Managing feelings and emotions -- Logic on leadership: how successions create leadership -- Part II: Entry of a CEO and followership -- Agent of evolution or transformation? -- The handover and CEO entry -- Succession or incubation? -- Authority and power -- The board: trust and followership -- The social and psychodynamic in successions.

"Based on a review of the literature and several in-depth case studies, this book suggests a strategy-as-practice framework for succession and explores leadership logic, trust, and followership. This book takes the reader through the key stages and disciplines regquired for effective top-level succession. Corporations, growing entrepreneurial companies and family owners all must manage strong group dynamics and individual needs in a succession transition. This book includes a wide range of global client cases, including public sector organizations, corporations, entrepreneurial firms and family owners. Based on rigorous research and written in an accessible style with a focus on practical needs, readers will also be able to combine this analysis within disciplines of governance, leadership, strategy and organizational development. This book will be of interest both to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners as well as the top levels of businesses"-- Provided by publisher.