{"id":4074,"date":"2026-05-26T03:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:06:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:06:46","slug":"mckinsey-studied-200-family-business-successions-the-biggest-problem-wasnt-the-heir-it-was-the-outgoing-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=4074","title":{"rendered":"McKinsey studied 200 family business successions. The biggest problem wasn&#8217;t the heir \u2014 it was the outgoing CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1477927833-e1779220258221.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Acha Leke is a senior partner in McKinsey\u2019s Johannesburg office, Chairman of McKinsey\u2019s Africa region, and a member of McKinsey\u2019s Shareholders Council\u2014our global governance board. He leads the firm\u2019s family-owned business initiative globally as well as the Transformation and Private Equity Practices in Africa and is a member of the McKinsey Global Institute Council.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chaitali Mukherjee is a partner in McKinsey&#8217;s Gurugram office. She has previously led businesses in India and across the Asia Pacific and Middle East region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#McKinsey #studied #family #business #successions #biggest #problem #wasnt #heir #outgoing #CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acha Leke is a senior partner in McKinsey\u2019s Johannesburg office, Chairman of McKinsey\u2019s Africa region, and a member of McKinsey\u2019s Shareholders Council\u2014our global governance board. He leads the firm\u2019s family-owned&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,283,369,6403,6406,3323,6407,766,1912,6402,5983,6404,6405,81],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-biggest","tag-business","tag-ceo","tag-family","tag-heir","tag-mckinsey","tag-outgoing","tag-problem","tag-small-business","tag-studied","tag-succession","tag-successions","tag-wasnt","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}