I have written about this many times—Kash should be viewing this as a hostile corporate takeover.
There are standard “rules of engagement” for those types of situations.
1. Mass firings immediately. Usually that is done by shutting down offices/divisions etc as appropriate.
The purpose of those firings is to instill fear in those that remain. Without fear there can be no obedience of remaining employees.
It is OK to “make mistakes” at this point. It is better to fire too many than too few. You can always hire new people as needed to fill critical gaps.
2. Bring in lots of your people to supervise operations—and let them identify additional “problem people” who need to be fired.
3. Quickly identify waste, fraud and abuse and fix it with a sense of urgency. That will then raise the morale of remaining honest and productive employees—and they will be ready for work hard for you.
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Note: Kash has not even begun step 1—and we are entering the month of June. In a normal corporate takeover all three steps would have been completed by now.
Agreed.