The Handoff Rehearsal
Simulating your absence
You've faced the hardest part. Now turn what you've learned into something sustainable — a way to identify and develop successors based on potential rather than convenience not just today, but every time this situation returns.
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Part of this story
The Heir
→Your successor isn't ready. Or maybe you're not ready to let go. Navigate choosing and preparing the person who takes your place.
Part of the quest
Legacy Leadership
→The heir who isn't ready, the shadow of the founder, the last quarter before you leave, and the empty office that awaits. Navigate the end of a leadership chapter and the legacy you leave behind.
What you'll learn from The Handoff Rehearsal
This scenario focuses on Simulating your absence — a critical skill inside the broader leadership domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Heir, a full interactive story inside the Legacy Leadership quest.
Skills you'll build in Legacy Leadership
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Your successor is sitting across from you. They're smart, capable — and not ready. Or maybe it's you who isn't ready to hand over what you spent decades building.
What started with the heir just got more complicated. Now you need to identify and develop successors based on potential rather than convenience — and the situation is shifting faster than your first approach can handle.
This is the moment you've been building toward. Stepping back from decisions when people still come to you by default — except now the stakes are real and there's no rehearsal. What you do next matters.
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