I worked in a factory during college--the founder was long dead, but people were still talking about how wonderful he was...these were cynical blue-collar union

I worked in a factory during college--the founder was long dead, but people were still talking about how wonderful he was...these were cynical blue-collar union types. Obviously, everybody knows that the founders are the real operators and that subsequent CEOs are basically asskissers and backstabbers. Everyone knows this, and you're bound to get cynicism and disloyalty as a result. This is true, even of good CEOs. Walt Disney vs. Mike Eisner? Henry Ford versus Robert McNamara? (bad example).