Downsizing Without Destroying: How to Trim What Your Organization Does Rather Than Destroy Its Ability to Do Anything at All

by N. Dean Meyer

Okay, times are tough and you've got to cut costs. But there's a good way and a bad way to do so. Across-the-board edicts and high-level SWAT teams that make "surgical strikes" are the bad way. Sure, they reduce spending; but they also decimate a company's ability to get anything done. Instead, cost cutting should focus on narrowing the number of things a company does, while ensuring that it devotes the resources needed to do those fewer things well. This monograph explains how executives can trim a company's spending without destroying its ability to do anything.

22 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2008