I think the punchline is understanding who the top executives actually work for - investors.
Including investors who would like to do things like sell off US manufacturing, change the name and focus only on things like OnStar and Autonomous vehicle back office.
People keep saying this could have been handled better. I've been wondering how I might do it better... took a while but one idea would have been to issue notices that "you're not cut" in parallel with issuing the "you're cut" notices to expedite feelings of relief... however, the problem with this is it would have had to be rolled out as a big list of who's not cut and you know that would leak.
So I agree it could have been less painful but I'm not seeing exactly how.
The original poster said it right. Great post!!!
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