[AndyJackson]

do you have a replacement ready.

this is one of the most dangerous and self-destructive shiboleths of all time. It destroys businesses and government agencies. Sure competence acquired through experience is needed in lots of professions, music, physics, surgery. But an awful lot of the time, a smart, enthusiastic young person who is not locked into "that's how it's done around here" can walk in and do a far better job than the featherbedder holding the position.

There is no future in keeping around a traitor bent on sabotaging your goals because said traitor is "experienced" and knows exactly how to gum up the works to keep you from doing what you really need to do.

[Rockingham]

I was part of a highly successful GOP state party HQs staff long enough to know how different people, specialties, and tasks work in a party organization. The issues of loyalty, competence, and innovation are distinct. In addition to specific skills and talents, the senior people should be experienced so they do not make damaging but avoidable mistakes, the middle ranks ought to have been around long enough to see where there can be innovation and where the old rules and experience hold true, and the smart, young, enthusiastic types are best suited for the front lines.