The objective of the firm is to extract as much money from its clients as possible and is continually developing new methods for extracting money from new places! But they're really in trouble once the clients catch on and go somewhere else.

If you have a job with no path or a poor Manager, trying to find other positions is also impossible - since your current Management has to be bought into wanting you to move on.

They desparately need a system like P&G where each Manager is accountible for the upward movement of their staff, and only when their staff are ready for advancement can they advance. Managers keep people in roles longer than they should to further their own ends, even if those people are better suited moving onto a new challenge.