Don't Sabotage Your Organization

Unintentional acts by employees can thwart productivity and damage morale. Take a page from an old espionage manual—and learn what not to do.

In 1944 the Office of Strategic Studies, a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency, published a 32-page manual entitled Simple Sabotage. The manual was intended to be covertly distributed to freedom-seeking people in corners of the world where freedom was not a welcomed concept.

It is mostly an instructional manual on how to muck up industri