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Most organizations don't have a succession problem. They have a thinking problem — and it surfaces every time a role opens and urgency replaces strategy.
Ron Henry, Chief Succession Officer at Ministry Transitions, has spent five decades in executive search and succession planning — responsible for placing over 800 people in new roles and guiding organizations through their most consequential leadership transitions.
In this episode of Operating Discipline, Ron gets into what it actually takes to position an organization for leadership continuity:
· Why the role you think you need filled is rarely the role you actually need filled — and what it costs when CEOs skip that conversation
· The rainmaker problem: what happens when one person carries 90% of the business and the organization has never built around anything else
· Why reactive hiring is a structural failure, and what succession planning demands from a CEO before a transition happens
· How to hire for where the organization is going — not where it is today
This is a direct conversation about the people decisions that determine whether organizations sustain performance under pressure — and what breaks down when those decisions get made reactively.
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Operating Discipline with Terri Wilson — candid conversations with CEOs about organizational performance under pressure.
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Operating Discipline is the podcast for leaders who are ready to take a hard look at how their organisations actually work — not just what their strategy says on paper. Hosted by Terri D. Wilson, each episode is a candid conversation with founders, executives, and operators about how decisions get made, how accountability is held, and how work really flows inside growing businesses.
Terri brings over 30 years of executive and entrepreneurial experience to every conversation. She's worked across industries helping leaders build the systems, structures, and cultures that allow businesses to scale without breaking — and she knows that most organisations don't struggle because of bad strategy. They struggle because of how they actually operate day to day.
Whether you're navigating rapid growth, building a team you can trust, or trying to close the gap between the business you want and the one you're running, Operating Discipline gives you the frameworks and real-world examples to lead with intention. This is the show for leaders who are serious about execution, not just ideas.
