2. There can be but one leader of a business at a time. A leader
cannot retire in place. Leaders do not prepare their successors
by stepping aside yet staying at the helm. This frustrates
successors and infuriates predecessors. This is a rule that is
often broken. This conduct can lead to no one directing the
business and no one taking responsibility. The ship is adrift
and the pilot is teaching the first mate a lesson by running the
ship ashore. Good job. The leader must remain leader until the
next leader takes the helm. To do less is to abdicate
responsibility. Or this conduct can lead to the successor
pretending to run the business. “I do everything but the
checkbook. Dad still does that.” This is not preparation. This
is “playing business”. Further, giving a successor checkbook
responsibility and then taking it back as punishment is a sure
way to kill a transition. 3. The successor cannot make decisions
for the predecessor regardless of the righteousness of the
position; regardless of what the successor