Save your money and cut your personal burn rate. This takes maximum advantage of your "great salary" in the best way possible. If you are working on a good team in a "pocket of excellence" in a decaying organization either your team will help to revitalize and reverse the situation or you will be overwhelmed by the slow failure of the larger organization. Have a plan now for how you are going to exploit your success (whether in follow on projects with the same team at the firm or in doing something new) and a risk mitigation plan for how you will judge that the project is not going to succeed (or be overwhelmed by the decline of the company). If smart colleagues are leaving your team for better opportunities then it's unlikely the team will succeed. There is a lot of value in seeing a project through to launch (and volume) but you have to be careful to avoid the "monkey trap" of a good salary and the natural inertia of continuing to work on what you've been doing.
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Save your money and cut your personal burn rate. This takes maximum advantage of your "great salary" in the best way possible. If you are working on a good team in a "pocket of excellence" in a decaying organization either your team will help to revitalize and reverse the situation or you will be overwhelmed by the slow failure of the larger organization. Have a plan now for how you are going to exploit your success (whether in follow on projects with the same team at the firm or in doing something new) and a risk mitigation plan for how you will judge that the project is not going to succeed (or be overwhelmed by the decline of the company). If smart colleagues are leaving your team for better opportunities then it's unlikely the team will succeed. There is a lot of value in seeing a project through to launch (and volume) but you have to be careful to avoid the "monkey trap" of a good salary and the natural inertia of continuing to work on what you've been doing.