We are a huge growth company and our appetite for senior talent is voracious. On this topic Newsletters Managing the IT Professional. With that in mind, these companies have developed employee succession plans to feed the management pipeline. Capital One uses a common language across the organization to identify more than 20 competencies that will help career professionals grow into potential manager successors. At the senior level, 'treats others with respect' would illicit a different behavior.
Companies focus more on succession planning for good reason.
You need flexibility to move people around with preparedness. Having worked as the CIO at several large companies during the 20 years before he joined Gartner, Gerrard has seen his share of positions vacated. What's always amazed me is how actually nobody I've ever dealt with is indispensable. The people around you tend to make up that loss after you've gone. Functional abilities, such as programming skills, are important DAP elements.