A guide to disruption in the workplace

A guide to disruption in the workplace

Here are some handy hints for making your workplace unproductive courtesy of the US Central Intelligence Agency:

  • Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
  • Make "speeches," Talk as frequently as possible and at great length., Illustrate your points by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.
  • When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible - never less than five.
  • Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
  • Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
  • Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
  • Advocate "caution." Be reasonable"and urge your [colleagues] to be "reasonable" and avoid haste.
  • When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading instructions...Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.
  • See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

Elizabeth Williamson

Passionate about building better relationships, resilience and proactive conflict resolution expertise in your business and personal life

1 年

Oh Ruth. This is a gem. Sadly the CIA logic seems to have ‘infiltrated’most organisational thinking.

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