STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING SUCCESSION
“The day you assume a top job is the first day of your
journey towards leaving that position. My philosophy about leaving a position
is that we are passing through this life and we are hoping that we have passed
through life, whatever part of this life we have influenced would actually be
better than when we entered it. If you apply that philosophy to the job you are
doing, if you are hoping that the day you exit from the job you are doing, you
are going to leave a better position than the one you found, then it makes
eminent good sense for you to start looking for the people who are going to
create that better situation you are looking forward to. And so I start very
early in any job looking for my successor.”
In dealing with competition, the first place to turn the
searchlight is yourself. Are you doing the best you can in the many departments
that you can consider-quality of products, quality of process, relationship and
so on? If you find yourself failing in one or two places, go and polish up your
act. Do the best that you can because
until you are doing the best, you can,
you are not batting on a strong
wicket against competition.
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