Doing more with less, without the lie in it
Cutting headcount and calling it efficiency is not the same thing as doing more with less.
The easiest way to juice revenue or cut costs is to cut headcount, and it creates exactly the instability that makes doing more with the same number of people harder, not easier.
The way out is not working the same people harder. It is concentrating on fewer, strategically chosen initiatives instead of overextending under the pressure.
This worksheet forces a real list of every initiative currently in flight, not just the ones on the roadmap slide, and a genuine cut, keep, or shrink call on each.
What you get
- A table for every active initiative, its real business outcome, and a cut, keep, or shrink call
- The concentration test for whether anything actually got concentrated
- A clear line between what this fixes and what it does not, the headcount conversation itself
Where should we send it?
One email with the worksheet. You can unsubscribe from anything else in one click.
On its way
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Adapted from the Organization chapter of The Mindful Product Company by Sam McAfee.