Corporate Sabotage: How To Recognize It & What To Do About It

I found a declassified OSS (the precursor to the CIA) guide to sabotage from 1944 for field agents behind enemy lines. Mostly the guide is a “how to” tutorial for physical infrastructure destruction, however buried in the text is a section about sabotaging corporations and slowing business to advance the war effort.

It describes simple techniques for ruining meetings, how to disrupt a company as a manager, and how to do so as an employee. The bad news is that these behaviors have become commonplace anti-patterns, and they are regularly sabotaging our projects and our businesses.

I’m going to teach you:

• What these sabotage anti-patterns are
• How to recognize the behavior in yourself and others
• Tactics to mitigate these behaviors