There's also the delightful expression: "A fish rots from the head down." I'm deeply skeptical of the claim that you can have a few thousand instances of "rot"

There's also the delightful expression: "A fish rots from the head down." I'm deeply skeptical of the claim that you can have a few thousand instances of "rot" without there being somewhere higher in the company it's being spread from. If 1% of the company is "rotting", then something in leadership is "rotting".