Ready or Not, The Future's Coming

摘要

With leaders aging and retiring, firms aim to secure survival by preparing the next generation Gayle Roberts took over as president and chief operating officer of Muscatine, Iowa-based engineering firm Stanley Consultants Group just a few weeks ago. She's already looking to develop her successor and the rest of the firm's next executive team. Since announcing in 2005 his proposed retirement target date or 2010, Klein-felder Inc. CEO Gerald J. Salontai has carried a to-do list to start planning for leadership transition. The process has progressed so well that he may actually leave a year sooner. "This is no different than contracting projects," Salontai says. "You put together the scope and the schedule."