Simple sabotage : a modern field manual for detecting and rooting out everday behaviors that undermine your workplace / Robert M. Galford, Bob Frisch & Cary Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galford, Robert M., 1952- author.

Frisch, Bob, 1956- author.

Greene, Cary, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational behavior.

Organizational effectiveness.

Management.

Physical Description:

viii, 212 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperOne, [2015]

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.

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"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780062371607

0062371606

9780062403421

0062403427

OCLC:

915774306