Certainly, there is a danger that frail, backward-looking executives can block the careers of successors and derail the progress of firms.
We find evidence of career spillovers, and the patterns of these spillovers are consistent with the idea that older workers block the careers of their younger colleagues in firms with limited opportunities.
The service has also long been perceived as a male bastion that has blocked the career paths of women even while female officers have ascended to the top posts in other divisions, including the directors of analysis and science.
The university science department decided in January that, instead of assessing who were its least productive researchers and firing them, it would simply not fill any junior tenured positions that became vacant--in effect blocking the career path of young tenure-track researchers.
We've all seen the image of the NRA projected in the media: kingmakers who, with an ad buy or independent expenditure, and the commitment of a substantial voting block, can promptly end the career of any politician who defies its commands.
Community midwives are a new cadre and AMA initiatives include: a "bridging programme" to higher education, negotiated with the Ministry of Education, to resolve the career block for CME midwives unable to complete secondary school and thus excluded from the civil service; midwife-run community birthing centres; CME professionalisation with defined career progression.
Let's hope that the MoD is not wasting nearly £38,000 a time on poaching from the private sector when the best staff might be already working in the department, seething at the blocked career opportunities.
In fact, Boeheim blames himself for Thomas not being closer to the top of the career shot-blocking list.
At Baylor, Griner probably had the greatest impact of any player in the women's game, setting an N.C.A.A. record for blocked shots, finishing second on the career scoring list and making the highlight shows with her dunks.
Why did James feel the need to post up eight times when the guy has shown zero capability on the block throughout his career?
