During a talk recently a colleague (TH) used a lovely image to describe a problem at his organization. He called it the "Green Gray" challenge: they have a large population of relative newbies and a similar number of folks nearing retirement, with too few people in between to maintain the corporate memory and culture. (TH also compared their situation to a snake which has swallowed one pig recently and another some time ago. The first bulge is near the snake's head, and the second is ....)
(correlates: MyJob, MasterAndCommander, LightMind, ...)