I think the nonprofit world is particularly susceptible to deleterious perverse incentives due to the lack of tight feedback loops you would get with a for-profit business, and indeed one failure mode is the over-accumulation of people with unaligned goals. As mentioned, this is much less of a risk when there is a good feedback signal, which some nonprofits do have, or when the organization is very small.
I think the nonprofit world is particularly susceptible to deleterious perverse incentives due to the lack of tight feedback loops you would get with a for-profit business, and indeed one failure mode is the over-accumulation of people with unaligned goals.
As mentioned, this is much less of a risk when there is a good feedback signal, which some nonprofits do have, or when the organization is very small.