“These topics are on so many members’ minds,” said Executive Vice President Vernon Schmidt, “but they are not the sort of topics that you can easily explore at conventions. We thought providing members with this added benefit was the right way to help them ask these important questions.”

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That’s the pull-no-punches question a writer asks in an article on succession planning that appears in the fall issue of Ag Innovator magazine. Rebecca Brinkley calls out five indicators that may suggest you are not doing enough to prepare your business to be led by someone other than you. They are:

• Too little delegation;
• Too few of the right people in place;
• No clear company vision;
• Fear of talking about it; and
• Lack of leadership training.

She advises readers to worry less about their legacies and more about the health of their organizations if they want their businesses to thrive after they retire.

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