{"id":128473,"date":"2015-11-02T06:11:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/02\/how-to-sabotage-an-organization.html"},"modified":"2015-11-04T23:10:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T06:10:28","slug":"how-to-sabotage-an-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/02\/how-to-sabotage-an-organization.html","title":{"rendered":"How to sabotage an organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually great stuff (and, as the poster notes below, a great set of anti-lessons to how to run an organization more efficiently and effectively).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Yonatan Zunger<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The &quot;Simple Sabotage Field Manual,&quot; put out by the OSS (the CIA&#39;s predecessor) in 1944, is a wonderful source of tips and techniques for anti-management. What&#39;s particularly brilliant is that revealing these methods can be even more destructive than concealing them: consider what happens when every time someone does something stupid and inefficient, the response is for people to wonder if that person is actually a saboteur. (The answer, by the way, is &quot;The Joys of Stalin,&quot; and is why Russia almost lost WWII: he had spent the 1930&#39;s purging everyone that he didn&#39;t trust, which is to say, basically everyone who knew anything)<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#39;re willing to accept that the people around you might just be idiots, and not actively planning your overthrow, then the pamphlet is a short and surprisingly amusing read. You can see the whole thing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/news-information\/featured-story-archive\/2012-featured-story-archive\/simple-sabotage.html\">https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/news-information\/featured-story-archive\/2012-featured-story-archive\/simple-sabotage.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105942331060319050588\" oid=\"105942331060319050588\">Neha Narula<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/103389452828130864950\/albums\/6212311728544043441\/6212311733574190066'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-XwQ8jcC1Utc\/VjaQm4GuQ_I\/AAAAAAAA8KY\/JBHROJ_Ds5w\/CSvwG-MXIAA5rBT.png?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/XZ51H5rB5YM'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually great stuff (and, as the poster notes below, a great set of anti-lessons to how to run an organization more efficiently and effectively). Originally shared by +Yonatan Zunger: The &quot;Simple Sabotage Field Manual,&quot; put out by the OSS (the CIA&#39;s predecessor) in 1944, is a wonderful source of tips and techniques for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/02\/how-to-sabotage-an-organization.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to sabotage an organization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-job-jollies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CSvwG-MXIAA5rBT.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134894,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/dont-think-theyre-trying-sabotage-aca-well-course.html","url_meta":{"origin":128473,"position":0},"title":"You don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re trying to sabotage the ACA, do you? 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