This volume focuses on the most critical strategic activity in any organization, namely, who gets chosen to sit in the top echelon of the pyramid

Succession Systems in Large Corporations: Characteristics and Correlates of Performance *; Matching Managers to Strategies: Point and Counterpoint *; Dilemmas in Linking Succession Planning to Individual Executive Learning *; Concerns of the CEO *; The Dynamic Organizational Contexts of Executive Succession: Considerations and Challenges; Heroes in Collision: Chief Executive Retirement and the Parade of Future Leaders; Human Resource Management In Action