Limited growth opportunities seems like a big problem that can kill any organization.
Specifically if leadership gets ossified and there's no realistic path for ambitious young people to rise into positions of power and responsibility.
When this happens, the ambitious young people are more likely to vote with the feet and build a competing organization that they will actually have power running.
This is especially problematic when it happens in government. What are young people in America supposed to do when the political conversation can't break out of asking which of near geriatric octogenarian who had a childhood with rotary phones should be our next president?
Our culture seems to have lost the very important feature that there comes a time when you've had your turn at the helm, and now you need to step down and support new leadership.
Specifically if leadership gets ossified and there's no realistic path for ambitious young people to rise into positions of power and responsibility.
When this happens, the ambitious young people are more likely to vote with the feet and build a competing organization that they will actually have power running.
This is especially problematic when it happens in government. What are young people in America supposed to do when the political conversation can't break out of asking which of near geriatric octogenarian who had a childhood with rotary phones should be our next president?
Our culture seems to have lost the very important feature that there comes a time when you've had your turn at the helm, and now you need to step down and support new leadership.