You're onto something. The issue is, if you do small targeted cuts, you'll spare the very people you want to cut. Because they're the best at playing office po

You're onto something. The issue is, if you do small targeted cuts, you'll spare the very people you want to cut. Because they're the best at playing office politics and finding ways to justify why they shouldn't be cut. If you can't find a way to bypass that, your options are few. One of those options is the sledgehammer approach. Axe entire agencies, fire everyone and never hire of the fired people back. Rebuild an organization from the ground up, with new people and less rot. It's what was done in ex-USSR countries after the fall of USSR. It wasn't pretty. It worked.