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Role rotation and tenure limits can reduce the risk of executive teams "stagnating and becoming irrelevant", and pave the way for internal successors, leadership specialists say.

In The Next Leadership Team, Thomas Keil and Marianna Zangrillo say that because success often leads to the replication of what's worked in the past, it can reduce a team's focus on what their organisation will need in the future.

Leadership teams that have prospered together for an extended period can end up following old recipes for success and believing they are "invincible", they note.

"Success also tends to instil in leadership team members strong beliefs in their capabilities, independent of whether the success was due to luck or well-executed actions..."