Interesting setting with 2 themes apparent

1 - the manner and style of sacking / laying off 900 people. Alternative ways in doing this? Dismissal letters? The old grandma is stuck in the tree and may fall to her demise forewarning? Individual calls or smaller team calls?

Style is never something strong when it comes to people management by narcissistic wannabes who seemingly must exhibit unflappable belief in their personality driving everything.

2 - Is the point regarding personality cults. Long since been with us and despite much research in terms of market analysis will stay with us. Because we seemingly want to believe people triumph over the institutional machinery. Management theory sets out very nicely how we move from personality into bureaucratic (in the positive sense of the word) management. But we want to feel entrepreneurial flair over proper management - why so many have a vested interest in keeping these inflated prices up as our investments depend on the falsehoods.

We are being sold potential more than actual performance

This also fits with the commoditisation of labour and increasingly many skills - reinforces the falsehood of facade. He was safe to get rid of 900 people, possibly replace them in the next uptick with 450 and a bit of AI?

Sadly, despite international proclamations - Labour, increasingly many skills, is a commodity and the superficial here and now is the manner we strategise to plan and plan to strategise with PR spin over real style, systems and structural approaches