At the time of recording Darryl Bates-Brownsword was the managing partner at Succession Plus UK. He is now Chief Growth Officer at Fabric, a consultancy that specialises in helping founders maximising the value of their business on exit.

In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, Darryl explains to host Michael Millward that we cannot expect employees to spend their entire career in our business. People leave work for all sorts of reasons.

Darryl describes how important it is for every organisation to have a succession plan, and that an organisation without a succession plan will be too reliant on the founder or senior manager.

Darryl and Michael discuss the different elements of a successful succession plan and the management techniques that managers need to implement in order to be able to create a viable succession plan.

More information about Darryl Bates-Brownsword and Michael Millward is available at abeceder.

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