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# Leading Off: A leader's guide to starting strong with stakeholders

McKinsey highlights how new CEOs must build a leadership pipeline and begin succession planning early, citing Prudential's Charles Lowrey presenting potential successors to the board a month before taking over. For boards, it underscores that CEO-board alignment on succession is a continuous discipline, not a one-off event, and that effective board dynamics should be established early in a leadership transition.

Sources

McKinsey & Company (https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/email/leadingoff/2026/10/2026-10-19a.html)

Topic: Boardroom Performance: https://lyoenandpartners.com/insights/topic/boardroom-performance

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