Overview and Endorsements for LEAP Publications
"Passing the Baton is an incredibly timely publication. The book serves as a reminder to confront the reality of stepping out of our comfort zones and gives entrepreneurs the courage to be strong and 'Step Out' into bigger territories which beckons us!"

Ken Ofori-Atta; Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Databank Financial Services Limited (Ghana)

"Passing the Baton has all the ingredients of a useful resource material that will serve as a practical guide for current and potential small and medium scale entrepreneurs. The use of indigenous case studies in the book is particularly commendable. It is my hope that insights provided in this book will be put to use by every business owner and manager in our country."

Mr. Frank Nweke Jr.; Director General, Nigerian Economic Summit Group

"Without doubt, this book is a valuable tool to provide business owners and their families with reflection criteria, advice and insights on how to handle transitions in family leadership, business management and ownership structures. In fact, each chapter portrays critical success factors of African long lasting family firms. This is definitely, a must read for African business families!!"

Dr. Rosa Trevinyo-Rodríguez; Founder, The Family Business Center, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico

"I couldn't have expressed the reasons behind my stepping down as Group Managing Director of TELNET, and the challenges and fears I had to come to terms with, any better than has been detailed in this book. "Passing the Baton" does a superb job of addressing the issues of succession. I recommend it wholeheartedly to all and sundry seeking to understand succession and its planning."

Dr. Nadu Denloye, Former GMD, TELNET Nigeria Ltd.

"Passing the Baton is a book that is especially relevant in our environment where several businesses do not last beyond the lives of their founders. Succession planning is an oft-neglected aspect in managing businesses, leading to premature business failure. Several vibrant and promising businesses with huge potential to contribute to economic development have unfortunately gone this way. I therefore consider this book quite apt in providing guidelines to achieving a successful transition and ensuring business sustainability."

Dr. Enase Okonedo
Dean, Lagos Business School, Pan-African University

"I am delighted to endorse this small book. Nations are built on ideas, organising principles which lead the way out of the darkness of physical subsistence. The vision for "Passing the Baton" is fundamental to building economic and social institutions, deepening long term economic capacity and an ordered and viable future for Nigeria. It is an idea which this book expounds in easy and practical terms and whose mechanics are also set out in a form that can be digested by the widest range of readers. It is a simple, small, but profound contribution to the philosophy of a great nation and I must salute those who have offered up this great document."

C.A. Candide-Johnson ESQ., SAN
Strachan Partners