Maybe Rod should read his own in-flight business mag. On a recent positioning tour of Europe I read an article on the successful management style of Jack Walsh, CEO of GE (I think). Every year he required every manager to rank their staff in order of performance and then the bottom 10% were cut. It didn't matter if the company was already successful - in order to make it even more successful he still cut the bottom 10% every year. . .I was surprised to see this article in th BA Business Highlife. It seems so obvious that cutting poor managers is the way Rod needs to go and yet his advisors are telling him that the most productive staff are the ones who need to be cut, not the least productive ones. I seriously thought about tearing the article out and sending it to him.