Hamilton Ibanes 
Succession or Promotion? 
A new outlook into succession planning

It shouldn’t be like this, but a Founder’s succession in a company signals a not-so-generous change in command. It feels as if someone who had been the topmost representative of a company until ‘yesterday’ is being ejected, or even expelled from the organization, no matter how big or a small your business is. Lack of planning and empathy, which causes trauma and veritable nightmares during such a transition, occurs in small, medium, or large companies.
THIS BOOK’S GOAL IS TO BREAK THAT PARADIGM.
From traditionally passing on the scepter as an act of succession and replacement, to the promotion of a Founder, who has set up a company that generates wealth to many families, to a city, a state, a country, or the whole world…
Our proposal is to prepare Founders for the ongoing journey of life with new challenges and to sensitize successors so they can recognize the Founder’s legacies, and choose to take over their responsibilities and follow their steps, or do even better, with that which has been built.
A successful succession plan will foster harmony within the family, support the prearranged agreements among partners, and enable successors to have an outstanding performance.
The invitation is to harmony. Let’s cheer for the Founders and their brilliance. Let us cast a challenging look on the succession of those men and women who have been dutifully promoted to a new age in their lives.
Enjoy your promotions, and your reading!

Table des matières

Forward
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Founder’s Profile
CHAPTER 2. Human Difficulties
CHAPTER 3. Three in one and the distorted mirror
CHAPTER 4. Dependence Syndrome
CHAPTER 5. The Preparation
CHAPTER 6. Wishes and arrangements
CHAPTER 7. The secret of a successful promotion/sucession
CHAPTER 8. Succession and the passing-on of the scepter
CHAPTER 9. Promotion
CHAPTER 10. The future is now
CHAPTER 11. The unusual stages
CHAPTER 12. The impacts on human dimensions
CHAPTER 13. The choice of being
CHAPTER 14. The journey as told by founders and successors
CHAPTER 15. Life goes on… also for founders
CHAPTER 16. Risks and opportunities
Conclusion
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A propos de l’auteur

Hamilton Ibanes
Independent consultant, entrepreneurial advisor, startup mentor and coach to young entrepreneurs. Member of the MESA Corporate Governance consulting board. Civil Engineer, International MBA from Business School SP/Toronto University, certified independent consultant by IBGC and certified coach by ICI-SP.
Forty years’ experience as executive in industrial/service operations. (B2B and B2C) in complex and multicultural environments, including a CEO position for a Japanese multinational company for the Latin-American market.
Outstanding career with major groups such as Horiba, Accor/Compass, Pial Legrand/Bticino, Hunter Douglas, Incepa (Roca) and Santher. Leading strategic planner and recovery planner of inadequate operations by implementing new business models, fine readjustment planner, and people developer in every company he has worked at.
Author of the book Lidere-se — Conhecendo a Si Mesmo para Liderar.