palallin posted:mlaughlinnyc posted:While they may go a long way to cut costs, cost reduction is never a business objective. Any business manager with half a brain knows you can't save your way to prosperity. But when you're running out of money, there is no alternative.
You are assuming all managers have half a brain. I have worked for many that don't. I have seen managers whose ONLY object was to cut costs. They cut the business right out of business. It happens.
PC had slightly less than half a brain per manager. NYC managers had one, PRR managers had none. There were more from PRR. Therefore PC managers on average had less than half. Maybe that's why it failed.
