Exactly right!
I had experience of this in my own business career where a weak ineffectual management was dominated by a corrupt and greedy salesforce. The senior management became paralyzed because they believed that the top producers were somehow 'irreplaceable' even though they were trashing the companies reputation.
Notice how Sit-Up have failed to develop new talent and have become even more reliant on the same core group.
It's a top down problem which should have been dealt with strategically-but it hasn't!
