Leadership Succession as Strategic Value Protection

The most expensive vacancy is the one no one planned for.

While the Mittelstand talks about the demographic wave in the change of ownership, a second succession problem runs quietly alongside it: filling the key positions below ownership level. But how does a succession plan that only names names turn into genuine operational readiness? And how do companies identify the five to twelve positions on which operational continuity really depends?
Companies that understand leadership succession as a business and balance-sheet risk protect their enterprise value – before the gap opens and a manageable task becomes a crisis.