He inherited a struggling union.
In 2008 his great-grandson Ben Budworth inherited the struggling title and appointed Blezard.
In 2012, when Scott Clawson took the helm of Culligan, the water treatment company, he inherited a struggling business that everyone believed had an EBITDA of $60 million.
When Michael Queen took the job of chief executive at 3i in January, he inherited a struggling private equity group that was labouring under a £1.9 billion debt burden and a plunging share price.
So you've just inherited a struggling communist nation from a dad who took synchronized gymnastics shows to a whole new level and you want to set a new party tone.
The new pope will also inherit power struggles over the management of the Vatican bank, which must continue a process of meeting international transparency standards or risk being shut out of the mainstream international banking system.
Konstantin Simonov, its author, was part of the first generation to grow up with the Soviet system's mock classroom trials, playground games of "search and requisition", and the "cult of struggle" inherited from the civil war.
As mayor, Mr. Sires inherited a town struggling with a lack of moderate-priced housing, underperforming schools and an overstretched budget.
Every manager also deals with such designs; some he has inherited, some he struggles to express, some he loathes, and others are still unknown and appear only as early tremors of imagination.
His inherited squad initially struggled to adjust to his methods, but notwithstanding that, Rodgers finished his first season with momentum, the signings of Daniel Sturridge and Philippe Coutinho sparking something – we didn't yet know what.
They have kept 10 clean sheets including in games against France and Spain.Scolari inherited a side struggling with inexperience and expectations under his predecessor, Mano Menezes, and turned them into a force to be reckoned with in the World Cup, especially after getting supporters excited once again.
