[erikb]

I work in a completely different field and I can tell you, it's absolutely the same. I think the chance is quite high, that people in even higher positions know they can only keep their position stable by putting such kind of people in leadership positions underneath them, or this is a serious survival skill in leadership positions itself, which allows such people to stay in power and even raise the ranks, specifically because they are skilled at sweeping things under the rug. Both would be a rather disappointing realization about the world, but that's how it looks like.