Succession Planning

NEW! http://www.leadertoleader.org/knowledgecenter/journal.aspx?ArticleID=28 And from the Leader to Leader Institute, an article titled, “Leading Transition: A New Model for Change,” by William Bridges and Susan Mitchell Bridges.

NEW! http://www.artsalliance.org/l_toolkit.shtml Visit this link from the Illinois Arts Alliance called “Planning for Succession.”

http://hildygottlieb.com. Visit this blog titled “Creating the Future: Hildy’s Online Journal for Community Driven Institutes” for a discussion & comments on the coming leadership gap.

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org. Visit Tammy Erickson’s blog at the Harvard Business School. Erickson is co-author of four Harvard Business Review articles and the books Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation and Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent, states in a recent blog post, “I’m convinced that Gen X’ers will be the leaders we need. The experiences that shaped those of you who were teens in the late ’70s and ’80s, as I’ve outlined in past posts, translate into valuable contemporary traits and perspectives.”

http://www.transitionguides.com offers “transition tips” for departing executives, boards and arriving executives, along with a quarterly on-line newsletter offering step-by-step guidance on nonprofit executive transitions.

http://www.compasspoint.org/content/index.php?pid=150: the grand-daddy of non-profit management, CompassPoint has been writing about succession and executive transition longer than almost anyone.

http://leadingtransitions.com/resourcecenter.html strengthens non-profit organizations through assessment, education and empowerment of leadership during periods of transition and change.

http://www.mta-hq.org The Museum Trusteeship Association, a network informing, advising, and inspiring museum trustees.

http://www.practitionerresources.org Contains a 15-page PDF titled Succession Planning and Executive Transition Management: An Introduction to the Next Steps Workshop presented October 10, 2006 by Transitionguides.com, Annie E. Casey et al.

NEW! This is part I of a series of blogs on Change at the Top. Yes, it’s written for arts organizations, not specifically museums, but interesting nonetheless. As are the comments. http://www.artsjournal.com/state/2010/03/leadership-in-arts—.html

NEW! Hewlett, Sylvia Ann. “How Gen Y and Boomers Will Reshape Your Agenda,” in the Harvard Business Review found online at www.hbr.org.

Leske, Lucy Apthorp. “Career Advice: Hiding in Plain Sight,” an article from Inside Higher Education on hiring from within, Sept. 14, 2009.

Stonesifer, Patty and Sandy Stonesifer. “Board of Turkeys: This nonprofit Should Be Great, But It’s a dud.” www.slate.com/id/2218124

Quindlen, Anna. Stepping Aside in Newsweek, May 2, 2009. With characteristic thoughtfulness, Anna Quindlen makes the case for how (and when) a boomer should step aside.

New! Tierney, Thomas J. The Nonprofit Sector’s Leadership Deficit: Executive Summary available online at http://www.bridgespan.org/LearningCenter/ResourceDetail.aspx?id=948

The January 12, 2006 edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy features a series of articles on executive transition:

• Planning Successful Successions
• Departing Charity Founders
• Smooth Transitions – Tips
• Charity Leadership and Turnover
• New Efforts Under Way to Recruit Next Generation.

Abruzzo, James. Museum and Visual Arts: The US Art Museum Management Leadership Gap, April 28, 2008 available in PDF http://www.artsmanagement.net/downloads/abruzzo.pdf.

Davis, Joy. Best Practices Module, Succession Planning. British Columbia Museum Association, 2005. Available in PDF format. http://www.museumsassn.bc.ca/Images/Archives/BP%209%20Succession%20Planning.pdf

Ferrin, Richard W. Interim Leadership During Executive Transitions, Museum Trusteeship, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter 2003.

Gottlieb, Hildy. Succession Planning: The Elephant in the Room, ReSolve, Inc. 2000. Available in PDF format at www.help4nonprofits.com.

Halpern, R. Patrick, Workforce Issues in the Nonprofit Sector, American Humanics, 2006 and available at www.humanics.org.

Lubar-Price, Mindy. Emergency Succession Planning for Nonprofit Organizations, Donors Forum of Wisconsin, 2005.

Masaoka, Jan & Tim Wolfred, Succession Planning for Nonprofits of All Sizes, September 2005. Available at http://www.boardnetusa.org/infocenter/vz/rc_content.asp?contentid=244.

Smith, Todd D. The Path Ahead: Some Thoughts on CEO Transitions, Museum News, April 2007.

Volunteer Succession Planning-A Practical Guide, Museums & Galleries NSW, 2005. Available in PDF format at www.magsq.com.

Wolfred, Tim. Building Leaderful Organizations. Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2008. Available in a PDF. MANY highly recommends the Annie E. Casey Foundation which has been in the forefront of building strong NPO leadership for more than a decade. To date it has published ten monographs on leadership and succession.

http://www.io.com/~tam/Resources/succession.html (A sample plan written for the Texas Association of Museums.)

NEW! The Executive Transition Handbook produced by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation is available online as a pdf. Visit http://www.nw.org/network/pubs/studies/documents/executiveTransitionsHandbook.pdf to read or download.

Singer, Paula M. and Gayle Griffith. Succession Planning in the Library, published by ALA [American Library Association] 2010. This book by our colleagues in the library world offers some differences but many similarities.

Suchy, Sherene. Leading With Passion: Change Management in 21st Century Museums, Rowman Altamira 2003.

Weisman, Carol. Losing Your Executive Director Without Losing Your Way. Jossey-Bass. 2004.

http://www.upstatehistory.org/grants/go.html: Upstate History Alliance’s GO program, providing up to $750 in travel money for New York museum employees.