June 22, 2026
Authority Transfer Succession You can make someone Chief Executive Officer in an afternoon. You cannot make the organization follow them by the same act. A successor can hold the title and still not hold authority, and the gap between the two is where most of the early difficulty in a transition actually lives. The reason...
June 16, 2026
Founder Gravity A board was debating a necessary expansion into a new market. The conversation kept circling one phrase, repeated almost reverently: “That’s not how we do things here.” Finally someone said what the room was feeling: “I think I see the founder here with us.“ The founder had died years earlier. Everyone smiled, because...
June 12, 2026
What Is Legacy Drift? You name the new Chief Executive Officer on a Tuesday. By Thursday, a decision everyone closed last week is quietly open again, and your sharpest executive, the one who nodded in the room, is on the phone with the founder, “just to sanity-check.” Nobody panics. Everybody is polite, busy, and genuinely...
June 8, 2026
She walked into Monday’s staff meeting with six things on her list. She walked out with nine. She didn’t volunteer for the three new ones. She answered when someone asked. She offered when a problem floated without a clear owner. She said “let me check on that” before she fully realized what she’d just done....
June 1, 2026
Operator to Architect During a recent appearance on the Consulting Leaders Podcast, CO2 Co-Founder and Managing Partner Gary B. Cohen shared a challenge he sees repeatedly among founders, CEOs, and leadership teams. Ironically, it often starts with success. The business is growing. Revenue is increasing. Customers are happy. The leader is deeply involved and highly...
May 27, 2026
Leadership Aperture In executive coaching, we often focus on what a leader needs to do: the next strategic pivot, the key hire, the stronger KPI, the better process. But the most sophisticated executives eventually realize that their greatest constraint is not always a lack of information. More often, it is a limitation in how they...
May 19, 2026
They Gave You the Title. Did They Give You the Keys? The family business succession planning began. You’ve been named President. Your name is on the org chart, the business cards, the email signature. You’ve earned it — years of showing up, learning the business from the inside out, proving yourself in ways that sometimes...
May 12, 2026
Succession Coaching for Staying Engaged Without Undermining Authority The successor is in the room. They’re leading the meeting. They’re making the call. And then the founder sends a message to one of the senior leaders afterward. Just a quick note. Nothing formal. Just wanting to make sure the team understood the context behind the decision....
May 5, 2026
I work with a lot of family businesses, and every family business carries two things into the future: what built it, and what will break it. So where do family businesses get stuck? The founder’s instincts, values, and operating style created something real—a company that employs people, serves customers, and sustains a family. That legacy...
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