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So he fired people based purely on hunch and speculation rather than reacting to concrete information he actually had. That's a recipe for success!

• comatose_kid 18y ago
  You are right - he wasn't being reactive, he was being proactive, trying to steer his ship ahead of the oncoming storm.
  • henning 18y ago
    If you make decisions based on what will probably happen, the proactive thing is to shut down the operation entirely, because most companies fail. But you don't know whether that's going to happen. Firing people is not free. All the time and energy spent investing in them is essentially gone. You shouldn't do it unless you have a solid reason to.
    • apgwoz 18y ago
      The impression I got from reading his article is that with the lay-off, Mahalo can survive with no external funding (or revenue) until 2012.