Mark Thompson
Mark C. Thompson, known as the "world's #1 CEO coach," is Chairman of the Chief Executive Alliance and co-author of the Harvard Business Review book CEO Ready: How to Earn & Keep the Job (2025), and a New York Times bestselling author.
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Jan 6, 2026
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Well, it's so essential to know this because I was just talking with a woman who's now been tapped.
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She has exactly the chops I'm looking for because it's a combination of this collaboration.
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Yeah, I mean, the interesting thing is that Harvard Business Review, Scott Baranato, who's editor-in-chief, approached me when I was doing a speech at NASDAQ, and he said, here's an odd thought.
Mark ThompsonGUEST
At HBR does lots of business articles on leadership, all sorts of management and leadership topics.
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And he said, I don't really see succession and the idea of readiness on the shelf yet.
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Can we talk a little bit about legacy? Do you have those conversations with the