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.
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