Funny thing is, for all the commenters agreeing that this type of leadership is broken, most of the folks here and everywhere end up always doing the same things once they find themselves in similar positions of power / decision making.
It's easy to see, from the outside, that a given cut stands a high chance of hurting a company. But cuts must sometimes be made regardless
presumably this/these are the Moloch the other poster alluded to
There are some cases where the outcome is bad (like the case at Ford now), and lots of people point out to that and say "I told you so". But those are the exceptions, not the rule.