Shell CEO says deep-water drilling likely to continue – Bloomberg
Many firms flounder when CEO quits – Seattle Times
New CEO and board research from Heidrick & Struggles and Stanford’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance reveals serious gaps in CEO succession planning – Stanford Graduate School of Business
CEO Succession Planning: Who’s behind Door Number One? – Stanford Graduate School of Business (PDF)
Softbank to Groom Executives: Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son plans to start a school to groom 300 executives with the goal of eventually finding a person to succeed him. – Wall Street Journal
Book Excerpt: Employees First, Customers Second; In an excerpt from his new book, Vineet Nayar shows how he built up trust through transparency to create a culture of change at HCL Technologies – Business Week