Organizations outliving their founders (or more generally their original cohort) is hard. For example, my wife and I belong to a ski club. (It's not as swanky a

Organizations outliving their founders (or more generally their original cohort) is hard. For example, my wife and I belong to a ski club. (It's not as swanky as it sounds. It's just a way to co-own a kind of dumpy converted motel up in New Hampshire, with arrangements to maintain it and coordinate its use during the season.) The club was founded in 1965, which among other things mean that within the last ten years or so the leadership shifted from the founders' generation to my own. There was quite a bit of conflict about things like maintenance priorities (e.g. do we upgrade some of the bathrooms to be more senior-friendly or do we bring the kitchen up to code) and expanding membership. One of the biggest controversies has been use of electronic devices in common areas during social hours, which mostly put my own generation on the side of our elders opposite those even younger. Apparently the debates about smoking were even more contentious, but that was before we joined. At this point the oldest members have passed on or shifted to weekday-only use (it's cheaper), so things have mostly settled down, but there was definitely some drama during the transition. And that's with ~50 families engaged in a recreational/social activity. Imagine the same in a huge company with customers and business needs and people's livelihoods involved. That is always going to be a bit rough.