{"id":34167,"date":"2017-10-14T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34167"},"modified":"2017-10-03T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:05:40","slug":"qotd-ww2-sabotage-manual-or-typical-management-at-your-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/14\/qotd-ww2-sabotage-manual-or-typical-management-at-your-company\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: WW2 sabotage manual or typical management at your company?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>(1)<\/strong> Insist on doing everything through \u201cchannels.\u201d Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2)<\/strong> Make \u201cspeeches.\u201d Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your \u201cpoints\u201d by long anecdotes and accounts of per\u00adsonal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate \u201cpatriotic\u201d comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(3)<\/strong> When possible, refer all matters to committees, for \u201cfurther study and considera\u00adtion.\u201d Attempt to make the committees as large as possible \u2014 never less than five.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(4)<\/strong> Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(5)<\/strong> Haggle over precise wordings of com\u00admunications, minutes, resolutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(6)<\/strong> Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(7)<\/strong> Advocate \u201ccaution.\u201d Be \u201creasonable\u201d and urge your fellow-conferees to be \u201creason\u00adable\u201d and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(8)<\/strong> Be worried about the propriety of any decision \u2014 raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the juris\u00addiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.<\/p>\n<p>Office of Strategic Services (OSS), <em>Simple Sabotage Field Manual<\/em>, 1944.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1) Insist on doing everything through \u201cchannels.\u201d Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. (2) Make \u201cspeeches.\u201d Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your \u201cpoints\u201d by long anecdotes and accounts of per\u00adsonal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate \u201cpatriotic\u201d comments. (3) When possible, refer all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,41,230],"tags":[476],"class_list":["post-34167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-history","category-quotations","category-ww2","tag-espionage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8T5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40367,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34167\/revisions\/40367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}