How to win friends and sack people

This is a bit of a fucked company kind of thing. If you're losing £X,000 a month because you engendered a series of mergers and acquisitions without thinking about the pragmatics of how you continue to deliver your service, the easiest way to recoup is to sack the people whose fault it isn't and then implement a restructuring exercise three months later. As part of this restructuring, make half the people who remain renegotiate their contracts.
But the dilemma really comes with who and how you sack. The favourite here seems to be, ditch anyone who has a personality (which at least leaves me safe). Not content with an office devoid of charm, we need to ensure that the staff exhibit similar characteristics. Then as morale plummets, send out an email to the office Christmas party. They led us to the edge of the abyss then took a giant step forward...
The key thing of course, is that this is evolution, not revolution; we will own the company and make it a great place to work. There will be no more corporate clichés... quality will be our buzzword. By the way, we're sacking our tester.