Analysts feel the need to change the strategy every six months, because if we kept one strategy and stuck with it, what would we need an analyst for? No matter

Analysts feel the need to change the strategy every six months, because if we kept one strategy and stuck with it, what would we need an analyst for? No matter how cynical that sentence sounds, I am seriously considering to frame it and put on my wall. The endless search of direction, combined with the belief in silver bullets is probably the single most destructive thing for a company of any size. I've been there. Many times. And my friends have complained about the same in their respective companies. Developers burn out from lack of continuity or visibility. They get exhausted from constantly putting out the latest fires, and they start to loathe the job (and sometimes themselves) because there is never time to do things well, but there is always time to do them again. You can substitute "they" for "we" - because quite frankly I believe that most of us have shared the pain.