What does your leadership pipeline look like? How deep is the leadership talent in your organization, church, or business? Have you even thought about it? Maybe you don't even know why you should be thinking about it.

As I have been working on this for a while I ran into a wonderful article that addresses a lot questions. Here are some of the highlights:

The Idea in Brief: You build the strongest leadership bench when you practice succession management. And, effective succession management comes when you adopt a talent mind-set.

The Idea in Practice:
    Focus on Development
    Identify Linchpin Positions
    Make It Transparent
    Measure Process Regularly
    Keep in Flexable

Developing a leadership pipeline is labor-intensive, and very difficult.  However, I can not stress enough how important it is to your organization.    

To learn more download the article [link] or visit Harvard Business Review for additional resources. Also, if you have good resources or ideas please leave your comments.