I have never seen such retention. Morgan Distribution History is full of once successful businesses which no longer dominate the market. While volumes have been written regarding the demise of these and other businesses, most focus on macro issues such as evolving markets, exploding technology, new paradigms, and the like. This intense, eye-opening presentation suggests that the primary reason successful businesses don't stay successful is not because of the market, technology, or even new paradigms. Businesses fail because the people in those businesses fail.
Most people have a working knowledge of the information they require to do their job.
The problem is not knowledge, but rather a deficiency of execution. Individuals and businesses don't stay successful because they don't do what it is they know they should be doing. Lose the Desire to Compete Success breeds failure. When a business and an individual begin their quest, their hunger for survival, much less success, drives an unbelievably focused effort. The desire to compete is lost.