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Re:Au Revoir by rowyourboat on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:00PM (#16701349)
A lot of research has gone into describing this "classist lie". It is not simply something that the parent stated as a truism. Organizational theory seems to suggest that founders are, as a general rule, not the best CEOs for a maturing company.

See, for example,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_life_cycle

and its sources.

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Re:Au Revoir by shrimp_emoji on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:09PM (#16701439)
>Stage 5: Decline : This stage initiates the death of an organization. The decline is identified by the focus on political agenda and authority within an organization,[4] whereby individuals start to become preoccupied with personal objectives, instead of focusing on the objectives of the organization itself. This slowly destroys the functionality and feasibility of the entire organization.[3]

Wow. What if the organization begins in Stage 5?

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