All transitions from one level of mental capability to the next can be hard. For high-potentials, who go through more transitions than normal people, they can be down right terrifying because they feel like a complete emotional breakdown.
How To Judge a CEO’s Capacity to Do That Job
You can get a pretty good idea of how risky a CEO’s tenure will be to overall shareholder value by looking at interviews he or she gave before taking on that top job, and assessing these via Elliott Jaques’s “complexity of information processing” (CIP) method. This often gives you some really good data. I’ve decided to start measuring the interviews …