We hear a lot about sort of this deep state, whatever that is, like this career lifers that sort of push Back on radical change. Well, look, in the beginning, We cut 20%. I walked in the door here with 52,000 people in this department, and now there's 40,000 people in this department. So the idea is if you're going to cut 12,000 people, you have to do it fast so that everybody understands the next shoe is not going to drop tomorrow and find where. (05:25–05:35)
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