1. Big Mig could spend his last season grooming his successor, maybe even help him win the Tour de France. 2. But his ego also meant that he never groomed a successor. 3. Compare their actions to, say, Michael Eisner, who appears unable to share power by grooming a successor at Disney. 4. Despite his age, they said, Davis resisted the notion of grooming a successor. 5. Eisner denies that he has had trouble sharing power or grooming a successor. 6. He spent little time campaigning for others or grooming a successor. 7. How long will Gibson and Sawyer stay on before ABC finishes its indeterminate process of grooming successors? 8. Mas had neither named nor groomed a successor and held the many fractious currents of the exile world together largely through force of personality and tenacity. 9. Nor did Roosevelt groom a successor. 10. One-man shows end when the one man retires -- unless he has groomed a successor. |