This is why it's essential for any enterprise that wants to keep long term growth going to build processes to catch and weed out stakeholders and employees that prioritize playing politics over actions that will further the progress of the company.

This is the biggest difference between companies that fade out, and the ones that keep being innovative as they grow.

Inaction in this regard leads to the company becoming top-heavy with people that have no clue on how to drive the company forwards, they only know how to climb the ladder.