The Importance of Having a Succession Plan

We try and identify probably the top 20 or 25 most vulnerable positions within the football club on and off the field. And we try and have a succession plan in place. So if we were to lose person A, what would we do? Person B, where would we go? The beauty of that system is that you get a sense of who's in the building already. And therefore that's the obvious place to go. Sometimes it highlights that the person that would replace the person you are preparing to lose isn't in the building. And that's really important because where then do you look? Where's the most obvious place to replace that person? Then once you've identified outside the building who