Simple sabotage a modern field manual for detecting and rooting out everday behaviors that undermine your workplace

"Inspired by the Simple Sabotage Field Manual released by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees..."--Provided by...

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Main Authors: Galford, Robert M., 1952- (Author), Frisch, Bob, 1956- (Author), Greene, Cary (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : HarperOne, [2015]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Unintentional sabotage may be destroying your organization
  • Sabotage by obedience: "Insist on doing everything through channels"
  • Sabotage by speech: "Talk as frequently as possible and at great length"
  • Sabotage by committee: "When possible, refer all matters to committees"
  • Sabotage by irrelevant issues: "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible"
  • Sabotage by haggling: "Haggle over precise wordings of communications"
  • Sabotage by reopening decisions: "Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting"
  • Sabotage by excessive caution: "Urge your fellow-confreres to be 'reasonable' and avoid haste"
  • Sabotage by Is-it-really-our-call?: "Be worried about the propriety of any decision"
  • Modern sabotage by cc: everyone: "Send updates as frequently as possible, including anyone even peripherally involved"