"Each pivot creates a new half completed system that a leader can declare victory and receive a promotion. The mess is left for the boots on the ground to deal with."

Boy do I know this well. Our last VP had this grand vision. While pushing the rest of the team to our launch date through crazy deadlines, he actually wasn't doing anything he said he was also doing, which was required to make the deadline.

We launched and handed a complete mess (to fix, which took months), and he quit a week later after receiving his six-figure bonus.