Ashish’s boss has just told him that there will be some cost cutting in the current market situation and the first situation to tackle was to reduce team sizes and team members. Ashish has always managed a very successful, hard working, cheerful and a close knit team. He had no idea as to how he should give this bad news to his team members. Also, he dreaded the fact of giving this news to certain employees who the management thinks should be laid off. Ashish is under pressure, but he needs to analysis the situation and plan out on how to deliver the bad news.