Teresa Novellino posted this article in Upstart Business Journal where she interviewed Meagan and me about succession issues in organizations and how generational differences affect the culture of transition:
David Sokol, considered to be Warren Buffett’s successor at Berkshire Hathaway, surprised his 80-year-old boss and the financial community when he announced he was resigning from the Omaha, Nebraska-based company in order “to invest in [his] family’s resources.”
That may not be the whole story, as the SEC is reportedly investigating Sokol’s private stock dealings with a company that Berkshire bought. But what Sokol said about concentrating on family was very revealing to Meagan and Larry Johnson, the father-daughter consulting team behind Johnson Training Group in Phoenix, and the authors of Generations Inc. (read more…)