Inc. The CEO Pipeline Is Running Dry—Here’s Why
Traditional pathways for leaders to rise to the top C-suite job are collapsing, creating a potential leadership crisis.
The report quotes Shawn Cole, president and founding partner at executive search and consulting firm Cowen Partners (which describes itself as having clients including “both small and large, publicly traded, private, and non-profit organizations”), who pointed out that “the middle-management, VP-level successors are just gutted right now.”
This is in part deliberate, Cole said, as companies are reevaluating their management structures. For example, Amazon grabbed headlines recently when it announced it was going to dramatically cut its middle management ranks.
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