Note the contrast between this and the departure of Groupon's CEO: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/01/groupons-ceo-writes-the-best-resi

Note the contrast between this and the departure of Groupon's CEO: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/01/groupons-ceo-writes-the-best-resignation-letter-ever/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/01/g... Now of course they are about two different types of events, but this letter is missing a number of things: - Down to Earth language: "brothers and sisters" (that we just fired) is over-the-top enough to set off alarm bells in the first few sentences. - No self-reflection or accountability for mistakes. Instead, downsizing is blamed on "scale" not meeting the needs for "leading on mobile." Nothing to do with bad decisions or missteps made by leadership. So what "scale" is needed then? Is Zynga going to fire people until they are a dozen people in a garage so they can "lead" again? - No re-assurance that future downsizing is not imminent. No discussion about specifics of how the evaluation of employees was conducted. No explanation as to how or why an 18% cut is the right size to provide the expected benefits to the company. If no other information has been provided to employees, people at Zynga should all be in fear of losing their jobs based upon this letter. - Instead of explaining in detail why the downsizing is beneficial, the CEO punts and says "But I think we all know this is necessary to move forward." This is not a detailed explanation of the upside to the downsizing, it is a jedi mind trick to cause people to project their own justification for why downsizing was the right move. The only justification given for reducing the size of the company is tautological: we need to reduce company size because we need to scale down the size of the company.