DC Comics handled their recent layoffs badly as they failed to explain their vision: what’s the direction of their compass? What does leadership look like for them?

And so the media just published rumours:
“How do rumors get started?
They’re started by the jealous people
And they get mad
Seeing something they had
And somebody else is holding…”

Here’s clarification. Facts Before Feelings. Now…now we can have a better informed discussion. Like I wanted to grasp the DC Comics business to better understand their current round of layoffs. This is a business not a tree house club of friendships. So my Batman feelings don’t count. This Motley Fool article was early March so pre-coronavirus but still current. This is a good start.

Layoffs are like NBA trades…it sucks to be on a winning team and then suddenly not…be.It takes time to know if it was a good move: for the people and for the org.

It’s not always a bad thing.

(We’ve all had moments we initially thought were devastating but looking back on them we see it was the start of something amazing.)

Netflix’s layoffs few years back seemed to have worked well (for more on check on that check out Marc Randolph’s book That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea).

We’ll see what happens to DC Comics.

DC FanDome is on August 22nd.

~ Sammy Younan