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Successful transitions often involve keeping founders involved, study shows
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
nonprofit business advisor
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1949-3193
pISSN - 1531-5428
DOI - 10.1002/nba.30449
Subject(s) - shoulders , succession planning , ecological succession , genealogy , business , management , process management , history , operations management , political science , public relations , engineering , biology , medicine , economics , ecology , surgery
Many nonprofits struggle with succession planning, especially when it's the organization's founder that is moving on and being replaced with another leader. But while conventional wisdom has held that a “clean break” is often best in these cases—allowing the new executive to operate without the stress of the founder looking over his or her shoulders—that may not be the case after all.