Exactly. There’s probably some VP under him who’s like 60 and feels like he’ll never get a shot at Phil’s role. And some 40 year old Director under him who has been waiting for a promotion to VP forever, and managers under her, and so on. All on hold because it has to be the same cast of characters at the top for a decade. When the Old Guard calcifies and doesn’t bow out gracefully, it logjams an entire tree of employees hoping to become the New Guard.