Paul Hamann was senior vice president of Night Ministry, a Chicago-based not-for-profit organization. In October 2003, he received a phone call from the wife of the Reverend Tom Behrens, the founder and the president and the public face of the organization. She said that Hamann Behrens suffered a massive stroke and the doctors were not sure of his prognosis. Behrens was walking the streets of a seedy neighborhood of Chicago in 1976, looking for people to despair, listening to their needs and offer them a helping hand and a comforting presence. For the past twenty-seven years, he built the famous Night Ministry in an organization that has helped thousands of children and young people every year. There is no succession plan, if there were never brought to the senior management. Now Hamann was not sure when or even if Behrens could work again. If Behrens returned to work, he will continue to lead the organization? If not, who will lead the Department of the night to go forward, even if it was only in the short term, and who will make the decision? As a community and major donors to respond to the new leader? "Hide
by Anne Cohn Donnelly, Sarah Lo Source: Kellogg School Management 9 pages. Publication Date: June 27, 2012. Prod. #: KEL667-PDF-ENG
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