Finding Leaders: Preparing the Intelligence Community for Succession Management

This paper explores how some of the intelligence agencies have been and are performing succession management. What has been the method by which individuals were readied and chosen for positions of great authority and responsibility-how were and are leaders being selected? And how should they be prepared and selected in the future? The author, an Intelligence Community employee at the NSA for 20 years, suggests implementation of succession management across the Intelligence Community. Results from surveys and questionnaires across agencies are included. (Originally published by the National Defense Intelligence College as Occasional Paper No. 17.)