If you increase the odds of success, you'll create the confidence to make big leaps. Fay Vincent served as the eighth commissioner of major league baseball. A career needs consistency, especially when the world around you is changing so fast. In the short term, lend your services to companies that share the same theme. More important, over the long term, align yourself with people who share it.
Most companies change priorities with the financial winds.
Don't be surprised or take it personally when their goals start to diverge from yours. The key is to reconnect with a group of like-minded people. Consistency brings you industry-wide respect. And as you mature through the phases of your career, it opens new and unexpected horizons. Jumping from fad to fad to get promoted quickly is neither satisfying nor sustainable.