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How to exit gracefully

Consulting with board, continuing to lead staff essential How and when to leave your chief executive post can be almost as important as how to attain it in the first place. Grant Lavet Pangburn A good exit is an important way to secure your legacy even as the search for your successor is under way. The approach of Steve Bartlett, departing CEO of the $22 million-revenue Financial Services Roundtable, may not be typical, but it placed the interests of the association before his own. Bartlett—head of FSR since 1999—first began speaking to his board three years ago about departing, with discussions focusing on timing. But given the legislative,… Read More