Institutional continuity does not survive transitions by accident. It survives because someone decided to govern it deliberately — and most institutions have not yet made that decision.

The frameworks most HR functions use to govern administrative leadership were built for a conception of the role that predates what it actually carries. The gap between the framework and the function is where the cost lives.

The friction accumulating in your leadership system is not complexity. It is the cost of a function that has never been positioned to carry what it should — and that you have been compensating for, quietly, without anyone naming the compensation as such.