{"id":599942,"date":"2026-05-23T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599942\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:00:10","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.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599942\/","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>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<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Acha Leke is a senior partner in McKinsey\u2019s Johannesburg office, Chairman of McKinsey\u2019s Africa region, and a member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[84,4203,19480,1372,59671,56,54,55,5351],"class_list":["post-599942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-mckinsey","tag-small-business","tag-succession","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}