Trust

For LANL employees to come through the predicted layoffs decently, each employee has to start to trust at least one other LANL employee.

LANS, whether the members of upper management actually trust each other or not, works like a team with a specific goal.

It is very difficult for many players, each of whom does not trust the others and each of whom has differing goals, who will not function as a team to beat a team.

Unfortunately, LANL, for many years, has trained its workers to trust no one else (think of all the turf wars, the infighting, need to know, and the compartmentalization). Thus it is difficult for these employees to start to trust even a few people in order to protect themselves.