Leadership20 May 2026
Assessing Potential Without Guessing
Potential is not a personality trait. It is a rate of learning under conditions the current job does not provide.
Most potential ratings are performance ratings wearing a different label, which is why they predict so little.
The signal worth measuring is how quickly someone changes their approach when the evidence changes — and that can only be observed in conditions the current role does not supply.
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Where Strategy Dies: The Middle Management Problem
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Leaders onboarded through a structured programme reach full contribution 2.4× faster. The mechanism is unglamorous.
The Succession Gap: 2026 Regional Board Survey
61% of boards we surveyed have no ready-now internal successor for the CEO seat. The reasons are structural, not individual.