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By F. John Reh, About.com Guide to Management since 1997

Succession Planning

Monday June 27, 2005
Companies that don't do succession planning have to struggle to replace key employees who leave or die. Those companies lose customers and employees while the search for successors goes on.

Are you practicing succession planning within your group? Even if your company isn't doing succession planning at a corporate level, and not enough of them are, you should be doing what you can at your level. Why? Simply because you can't be promoted until you have someone ready to take your place when needed.

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