In no particular order…..
Go forward, no I mean back…trim back but grow, buy this tech but only the cheap version with limited functionality but make it work like the expensive enterprise version, have redundancy unless its expensive, then have cheap redundancy, skill up our people unless it costs a lot, when you do skill them up do it 6 months to a year before you use the tech you are skilling them up on so that they forget. Hire top talent but at the cheapest salary you can so that they either lie about being top talent and stay and produce nothing or are actually top talent and leave later on when they find a higher paying job. Rule out of fear, make sure you capitalize on the desperation of the employees. Those single income employees who provide for their families and\or those who desperately need the insurance are prime targets. Use the fear of laying off to squeeze in those extra extra long hours everyday and still don’t reward them at the end of the year. At the slightest hint of displeasure remind them that they “need” this job. Make town hall meetings vague. “Things are happening” “trimming down may or may not happen and if it does it may or may not happen now or later” “layoffs may or may not happen with ‘x’ team or maybe some other team”. Keep the message delivered uncertain.
The plan is chaos mixed with the truth mixed with bad decisions.