This something I found on wikimannia web site.
I was first told it by SSG Cook after a...event in Korea.
Six phases of a big project:
Enthusiasm,
Disillusionment,
Panic,
Search for the guilty,
Punishment of the innocent, and
Praise and honor for the nonparticipants
I was reading through some of the In Defense of the Red Army thread, then started thinking about what happened to Zhukov after WWII, and then remembered part of that saying, then looked up the rest.
https://en.wikimannia.org/Six_phases_of_a_big_project