When Flawed Onboarding Crushes New Leaders

In an ideal world, leadership transitions would look something like this: Months before the change is planned to take place, all the stakeholders involved would come together to discuss what kind of leader will have the greatest impact on the business, be the most effective at leading an experienced team, and will have enough new thinking to disrupt outdated paradigms that are holding everyone back from change. The new leader would be named while the existing leader was still in place, and there would be an amicable transition period where the handoff would occur.