Executive Solution Overview
For your final project, you will complete a succession plan for an organization of your choice.. **Company Name: AMAZON** **Succession Planning Project Overview** Using the material learned in your degree program, the information in this course, and additional research, develop a comprehensive succe…
Assignment Prompt & Instructions
For your final project, you will complete a succession plan for an organization of your choice..
**Company Name: AMAZON**
**Succession Planning Project Overview**
Using the material learned in your degree program, the information in this course, and additional research, develop a comprehensive succession plan for a real organization. The organization can be based anywhere in the world. If you select an international organization, keep in mind the global and cultural factors. You may also use your current organization as the basis of the succession plan, if the organization is of sufficient size to justify a meaningful project paper.
Assume the role of chairman of the board (or similar position) of this organization. You have recently received the resignation of the CEO (or similar position), a highly successful and charismatic leader who has held this post for the past twelve years. (The real-life company should have a current [sitting] CEO who has been in that role for at least three years, preferably longer.)
**As the chairman of the board, how will you ensure that the organization continues to thrive, and not merely survive, without the current CEO?**
Your task is to design a comprehensive strategy for selecting a successor and ensuring ongoing success with a new leader at the helm of the organization.
**Course Project—Succession Plan**
**Wk1**
**Organizational selection, background, and situation analysis**
– Identify your subject organization.
– Describe mission, culture, and leadership structure.
– Analyze current organizational challenges.
– Evaluate impact of CEO resignation.
**This Week**
Identify your subject organization and describe its history, background, products, services, management structure, culture, mission, and any current challenges. Include your analysis of how the organization would be affected if the current CEO were to actually resign.
### **Submission Details:**
– Submit your paper as a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
– Each Covered Heading must contain 3+ credible cited sources and a conclusion summarizing talking points.
– **Due by 4/29/25 at 12:30am CST**
**Requirements:**
1. **Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main post. This adds credibility to your argument.**
**[Textbooks]:**
Hughes, R. L., Beatty, K. C., & Dinwoodie, D. L. (2014). [_Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success_](https://myclasses.southuniversity.edu/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=126239&type=lti&rcode=southu-50879&srcou=9764) _(2nd ed.)._ San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 978-1-118-56723-4
**and**
Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2017). [_The Leadership Challenge_](https://myclasses.southuniversity.edu/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=126239&type=lti&rcode=southu-51928&srcou=9764) _, (6th ed.)_. San Francisco, CA: Wiley. 9781119278962
2. _No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years._
**3.** **No AI support, score must be 0% and less than < 10% score on Turnitin**
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