Consider an interim manager - they can help run the business until existing staff have the right skills.
Fact is, individuals need to have the right skill set to have good job security.
But members who lack the right skills will not be hired.
To mentor other business people effectively you need the right skills and experience.
For those who succeed, what counts is the right skills.
You need to make sure that you have the right skills and resources.
Does my intended successor have the right skills and abilities?
"If someone shows up and has the right skills and the drive, he'll get a job."
These are used in laboratories so only people who have the right skills can enter.
I think it's a mindset - I'm not sure that people have the right skills coming out of college.