Screen LibrarySimple sabotage : a modern field manual for detecting and rooting out everyday behaviors that undermine your workplace /
"Inspired by the Simple Sabotage Field Manual released by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees ..."--Provided b...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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HarperOne,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"Inspired by the Simple Sabotage Field Manual released by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees ..."--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 212 pages ; 19 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780062371607 0062371606 9780062403421 0062403427 |
| Index Number: | HD58 |
| CLC: | C936 |
| Call Number: | C936/G155 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Unintentional sabotage may be destroying your organization -- Sabotage by obedience: "Insist on doing everything through channels" -- Sabotage by speech: "Talk as frequently as possible and at great length" -- Sabotage by committee: "When possible, refer all matters to committees" -- Sabotage by irrelevant issues: "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible" -- Sabotage by haggling: "Haggle over precise wordings of communications" -- Sabotage by reopening decisions: "Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting" -- Sabotage by excessive caution: "Urge your fellow-confreres to be 'reasonable' and avoid haste" -- Sabotage by Is-it-really-our-call?: "Be worried about the propriety of any decision" -- Modern sabotage by cc: everyone: "Send updates as frequently as possible, including anyone even peripherally involved." |