This book examines current research related to succession planning strategies and tactics. The authors compare and contrast the rationale and processes needed for effective and efficient succession planning. This is a comprehensive endeavor exploring succession planning across today's key disciplines: business, education, and healthcare. Succession planning is examined from the commercial, government, and non-profit lens. The book features active research, broad literature reviews, and examines conceptual frameworks. From this valuable contribution to succession planning research, readers will receive a thorough assessment of the theoretical foundations of succession planning and ethical considerations for sustainable leadership.

1. Developing Sustainable Leadership through Succession Planning

2. Literature Review of Succession Planning Strategies and Tactics
3. Succession Planning for Large and Small Organizations: A Practical Review of Professional Business Corporations
4. Succession Planning Management
5. Succession Planning in Non-Profit Healthcare Organizations
6. Succession Planning in the Small Business: The Good and the Bad
7. Succession Planning in Family-Owned Businesses
8. Federal Agency Succession Planning
9. Promoting Public Sector Sustainability through Participation
10. Succession Planning Research within the Business / IT Arena
11. Strategies for Healthcare Organizations in Succession Planning
12. The Feminist Perspective of Implicit Bias in Succession Planning in Healthcare
13. Are You Preparing for a Successor? Succession Planning in a Small Private Practice Healthcare Setting
14. Succession Planning Research in the Educational Sector
15. Case Studies in SuccessionPlanning for K-12 Districts
16. Succession Planning Models, Conceptual Maps, Ethical Considerations, and Best Practices
17. Preventing Negative Conflict in Leadership Succession: Ethical Considerations and Practices
18. An Epilogue to Succession Planning: Understanding the Value of Your Enterprise.