Perhaps it reassured some at CQ-ROLL CALL that the managing director Laurie Battaglia told Politico reporter Michael Calderone that there wouldn't be any more layoffs. Last week, Calderone tells us that 44 staffers got the ax and then this week the long-time editor Brian Nutting also was let go.
But "no more layoffs" is not what in-touch communicators want or need to hear. They know the score. It's now a Black Swan economy in which unexpected developments become the norm and those developments have game-changing impacts. Financial-markets expert Nassim Taleb published a book with that title in 2007. Many were dubious of this "theory." Not too many are now.
Isn't it more reassuring to a workforce for leadership and management to demonstrate they're facing reality by saying: We don't know what will happen so we can't predict hiring or layoffs. In essence, the new economy has made us all day laborers.
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