As per usual was looking for something else and found a lot on “founder’s syndrome”, including this:
Founder’s syndrome. It affects nonprofits and for-profits alike. And it can be crippling to any organization. Understanding what it is and how to avoid it is crucial to the future of your 501(c)(3).
Taken from that most-reputable of sources, Wikipedia, founder’s syndrome is defined as, “a pattern of negative or undesirable behavior on the part of the founder(s) of an organization”. While that can be true, we find that most cases of founder’s syndrome within nonprofits simply involve a founder with too much influence. In plain English, it means that the universe revolves around the founder…and not in a good way. Here is an example of the way it usually works.