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Select, groom your successor early

"What's the most important leadership lesson you've learnt?" The question by the young intern really got me thinking. It was Q & A time after I had taught a leadership class and I took a moment to search through my mental database in search of the one lesson that could be qualified as 'most important'.

Then I replied thoughtfully, the importance of raising successors might not be the only important lesson, but it's certainly one of them.'

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