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You need a succession plan

Every organization should outlive its leader, especially its founder. To make this happen you need a succession plan. Without one you are planning for the organization to fail. Either there will be in fighting by those second in command, or the organization is missing crucial skills and experience to at least sustain its business. Moses was clear about this. Numbers 27:15-17, Then Moses spoke to the Lord, saying: “Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep which have no shepherd.” Moses was about to be taken up into heaven by God and this was the first thing Moses said to God. We can either be selfish, or thinking about the people we lead. Some choose to control things till they expire or they have extracted all the possible benefits to themselves. The greatest leaders are those that deve...