Cost Cutting or Muscle Cutting - For Surviving Recession

Are you cutting people or are you cutting the wastages in the processes?

Is your efficiency increasing or are you just increasing the stress on the current people?

Are you firing people in a way that leaves the exisitng people searching for their jobs, even when you wanted to retain some of those key people.

System and Processes finetuning and powerful implemenation is important for sustained gorwth right now and over time.