$2.$ Situation $2$: Your boss is breathing down your neck to continue cutting costs in your department and become more $$lean$.$ You have slashed your budget as thinly as possible without resorting to pay cuts, overtime reductions, reduced work schedules, and other measures that could affect your team member$$s pocketbooks and even their future with the company. You are still committed to avoiding such measures but aren$$t sure you can. So far, you have not asked the team for their input on ways to cut costs. You are not sure whether you should talk with them now.

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