LTYM - The CIA Manual

Letters to a Young Manager

The CIA Manual, #391
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Please note that this letter is in-process; the following are my notes

Dear Sophie,

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1944 CIA manual on how to bring a company to a halt. Do we do the same?
Bureaucracy is a strategic (sabotage) tactic!

From global innovation summit in Copenhagen; bureaucracy smothers innovation.

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Sincerely yours,
Ed

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[1] Richard Feloni , "The 16 best ways to sabotage your organization's productivity, from a CIA manual published in 1944," Business Insider, Nov. 5, 2015. See http://www.businessinsider.com/oss-manual-sabotage-productivity-2015-11
[2] The CIA Manual "Simple Sabotage Field Manual," 1944, is here: https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/simple-sabotage.html

Takeaways:

Bureaucracy can be sabotage in the guise of order

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