Your questions answered, Inside Track, October 2010
I’m leaving this job in 3 month’s time, how do you think I should ensure my legacy?
You should probably have asked that question on the day you joined the job, or at least 9 months ago! But here are some questions you should be asking yourself now:
- Be really clear about what it is you have achieved in this job. How have you moved the business on? What can you point to specifically that you have driven forward?
- Are those things sustainable? What can you do to reinforce them now as you leave The most important thing you can do is to hand over to a successor carefully and properly, so your successor is able to get up to speed, understand what has happened and why things have happened that way and how best they can build on the legacy they are being left
- The truth is the most you can hope of your legacy is that it is a foundation upon which your successor will build. Leadership is a generative business over different generations of leaders. The worst is that your successor wants to start again and build foundations from new.
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