Myth 10: The Myth of Replacement
The new leader walks in. The room shifts toward them. And something stirs. Not jealousy, not resentment, but something quieter and harder to name.
If they take this on, what happens to me?
It is a question most leaders never say out loud. It surfaces in the gap between the handover conversation and the drive home. In the moment the successor gets the credit for something built over years. In the strange grief of watching someone else inhabit a space that once belonged entirely to you.
Most succession conversations never go here. Elizabeth does.