Six companies, seven days, same playbook.

Welcome to the modern age where the excuses are interchangeable, the points don't matter, and ALL the strategies are not-so-secretly the same! Listen or watch as Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Leader Om Patel talk through this month's round of layoffs and expose why Cloudflare's AI-first cuts and Fidelity's RTO-to-layoff pipeline aren't strategic decisions at all!

What Brian and Om get into:

• Why Cloudflare cut 1,100 workers the same day they reported 34% revenue growth
• How mimetic isomorphism drives CEO herd behavior
• Incentive structures that reward confident memos
• Why your sprint reviews, OKRs, and retro actions MIGHT be running the same play
• A diagnostic for catching yourself performing response instead of executing change

By the end of this episode, you'll be spotting these announcement-as-strategy patterns in real time, maybe even in your own meetings!

#CorporateStrategy #TechLayoffs #ProductManagement

Cloudflare, Fidelity, Coinbase, Meta, Microsoft, Harris School at University of Chicago, Marty Cagan

LINKS
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VTA_y38MXu8
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/362QvYORmtZRKAeTAE57v3
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agile-podcast/id1568557596

INTRO MUSIC
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