I appreciated this leader's honesty but shared that they were more at risk in not planning for leadership succession.

They want to influence the leadership succession and are looking to secure internal victories, rather than thinking of how to win over the voters.

You regularly discuss leadership succession with your top leaders.

The system was governed less by statute than by informal conventions, and no settled mechanism of leadership succession existed.

The ten vassal states operated independent hereditary leadership succession within their existing ruling houses.

The original letters patent which created the title determine the order of succession.

There are also other sorts of order of succession than hereditary succession (such as line of non-hereditary succession to democratic state offices).

Hereditary monarchies have used a variety of methods and algorithms to calculate the order of succession among possible candidates related by blood or marriage.

In hereditary monarchies, particularly in more ancient times, seniority was a much-used principle of order of succession.

This has led sometimes to an order of succession that balances branches of a dynasty by rotation.

The rule of succession has many different intuitive interpretations, and depending on which intuition one uses, the generalisation may be different.

The rule of succession comes from setting a binomial likelihood, and a uniform prior distribution.

In 1980, the rule of succession was changed from agnatic primogeniture to absolute primogeniture.

But going by past precedents, the attempted change in the normal though unwritten rule of succession was quite unfair to the elder son.

Experts said that a change to the rules of succession for peerages would require primary legislation and could raise a host of legal problems.

Few imagined him winning a future succession battle.

The attacks come as rival factions position themselves for a looming succession battle over the selection of the next pope.

Most of them have no work, and a succession battle has broken out inside his regime.

The resulting succession battle caused the federation to collapse.

An excessively strong presidency encourages high-stakes succession battles in which elections tend merely to confirm the winner of a secretive, internal struggle.

First thing, we had an old team and no succession plan.

Apple executives have said that they have a succession plan in place but have not discussed it publicly.

Ego, pride and those awkward things, events, can make a mockery of whatever succession plan a board has tucked away in a dusty drawer.

They've not had to think through a succession plan or consider the long-term sustainability of multisite.

Any well-run firm should have a proper succession plan.