I would say we are seeing a case of the "Iron Law of...

I would say we are seeing a case of the "Iron Law of Institutions" when it comes to Gandel and the old guard of rusted-on ALK board members:

"The people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution."

I also think the following Gramsci quote is relevant:

'[t]he crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear'.