succession
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His ascension has happened as Disney is in the midst of a closely watched CEO succession process.
He believes this tax will force many owners to sell up, which is the "real worry on succession".
From BBC
His rise is shaking up a succession landscape complicated by years of tumult and turnover in GM’s headquarters.
He also needs to come up with a succession plan.
From MarketWatch
The succession of dynastic governments that ruled over China’s heartland were sometimes ethnically Han, and sometimes northerners—Mongols and Manchus especially—who ruled empires now referred to as “Chinese.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.