Like many companies this year, Amazon announced major layoffs. The problem is not only smaller teams are now left, but there’s also scattered attention. After a big cut, the instinct across any organization is to brace. People narrow their focus to survival. Leaders hedge. Initiatives retreat into silos. That instinct is human, but it quietly drags performance. The promise is that it is fixable. With the people that remain, companies can quickly reset culture for speed, clarity and ownership.

Look at the signals from the market. Amazon’s latest round of cuts was framed primarily as a cultural reset and a push to remove layers so work sits closer to owners, even as revenue grew. The message was less about short-term savings and more about how the company needs to operate in order to mo

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