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Cut early, cut big, and cut once then move forwards with new operating plan.
by nickdothutton 4y ago
Cut early, cut big, and cut once then move forwards with new operating plan.
- irrational 4y agoAnd cut when other companies are cutting. My company did fairly small layoffs about a year before everyone else started. I imagine the hire ups wish they had waited to do deeper cuts when everyone else was cutting.
- omoikane 4y agoSomewhat related from "The Prince" by Machiavelli: in seizing a state, the usurper ought to examine closely into all those injuries which it is necessary for him to inflict, and to do them all at one stroke so as not to have to repeat them daily Also: men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232 https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232 https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/57037 https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/57037
- ejb999 4y agothat is pretty much what Musk did with twitter - and he was vilified for it.
- eadler 4y agoMusk started with three big cuts and has been doing near weekly cuts since then. I'm not sure that counts as "Cut early, cut big, and cut once". (I'm a former Twitter employee)
- nickdothutton 4y agoI should have added that this advice came to me from one John T. Chambers.