Even for Welch, as I understand it, he was mostly firing areas that were under performing by the metrics they had. So they did have something: we reach the sal

Even for Welch, as I understand it, he was mostly firing areas that were under performing by the metrics they had. So they did have something: we reach the sales numbers we expect from that division or it gets the ax. I don't think this kind of strategy will work for all kinds of companies.