I heartily agree, we have enough trouble with others calling for our demise, without doing it to ourselves. We should be reducing our head count in the HQ by streamlinng not by sending them elsewhere. Most organisations I know would reduce and centralise when faced by resource pressures. We have lost our way and decided to manage rather than lead and command; what we should be doing is commanding with a light touch and trusting our boys and girls in the field to deliver by empowering them, not by adding inflated managment structures above them.