8.3. Pattern Examples
From both management and communications perspectives, patterns provide powerful indications that if ignored or carelessly addressed can cause even the most crucial strategic intentions to come apart, fail, or bring about even more problems. Even the most adverse of circumstances and the worst of surprises have recognizable elements and reasonably similar event sequences. Here are some examples.
8.3.1. Corporate Succession
The story with which I opened this chapter illustrates a typical corporate succession pattern. The shorter the period of time between the publicly announced end of one leader's tenure to the succession of the next, the more likely it is that what is planned will actually occur. This is the pattern of ...
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