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Retirement of a longtime leader triggers a soul‐searching process
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33149
Subject(s) - soul , process (computing) , transformation (genetics) , management , anxiety , operations management , psychology , public relations , business , sociology , marketing , social psychology , political science , computer science , economics , epistemology , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , operating system , psychiatry
Any planned departure of an organization's top administrator generates a healthy amount of anxiety among staff, and often the community served as well. When the exiting leader has been at the helm for decades and has shepherded a successful organizational transformation, the level of concern about the future can rise exponentially.