In today’s fast-shifting businesseconomy, leadership transitionplanning is more thangood policy — it is mission criticalin protecting shareholder value. Aquick glimpse at the recent sagasplaying out on the stage of corporatemanagement makes this truthself-evident.
When three of Mercury InteractiveCorp.’s top executives, includingCEO Amnon Landan, resignedon Nov. 2, 2005, Mercury’s stockprice dropped by 32 percent. Thelesson here is that a sudden lossor transition of corporate leadershipprofoundly affects shareholdervalue. Shareholder value isarguably the most powerful factorin determining whether an otherwisegreat organization becomesan acquisition target, is restructuredor in the most severe circumstances,is taken apart.
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