Layoffs and Mistakes

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

There is a lovely article in Inc. Magazine contrasting the layoffs at Twitter with the layoff announcements at Microsoft. Elon Musk, “The Barbarian,” took the innocents out back and metaphorically shot them. In contrast, Satya Nadella of Microsoft wrote of acting with other senior leaders in a “thoughtful and transparent way” about the layoffs that will be coming in the next few months.