How are cost-cutting measures still a strategy?

Change is hard for those who've only thought of the concept of "business" in one way.

I can answer the question in the headline pretty easily: cost-cutting measures have been a preferred way of doing business since about the Egyptians, change is hard, and here we are today. Most guys are taught about business in the following way:

• Know your metrics (most somehow still do not)

• Repeatedly tell everyone "what's measured is what matters"

• Seek p…