Simple Sabotage Field Manual

Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

by Aaron Dignan  · 1 Feb 2019  · 309pp  · 81,975 words

a singular focus: helping these citizens carry out acts of “simple sabotage” that would destabilize their own communities and businesses. When completed, the so-called Simple Sabotage Field Manual was wide-ranging. It covered everything from damaging buildings and infrastructure to interrupting supply lines. But there at the end was a little section focused

…

first few loops. For a refresher on looping see page 201. Notes PART ONE: THE FUTURE OF WORK destabilize their own communities: William J. Donovan, Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Washington, D.C.: Oxford City Press, 2011). Operating Organization of the Union Pacific: Ray Morris, Operating Organization of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Systems

…

pay, 168 Semler, Ricardo, 245, 258 Seneca, 189 Senge, Peter, 153, 202 sensing, 202–6, 231–32 signal-controlled intersections, 9–12, 13, 46, 55 Simple Sabotage Field Manual, 7 Sinek, Simon, 222 Sisodia, Raj, 60 Slack, 119, 134, 135 SLAM teams, 80 Snowden, Dave, 156, 188–89 Sociocracy, 70–71, 122 space: creating

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results

by Andrew McAfee  · 14 Nov 2023  · 381pp  · 113,173 words

help win the war, inflict standard corporate operating procedure on the other side. That’s a conclusion you’re likely to reach after reading the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, which was produced in 1944 by the US Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor of the CIA). When I first heard about this document I

…

that three people have to approve everything where one would do. Sound familiar? Many companies’ current practices seem like they were copied straight from the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. If that sounds like an exaggeration, let’s watch Jennifer Nieva try to get her job done. In 2005, Nieva was working as a manager

…

times that, when she made the next step in her career, she asked me to write a LinkedIn recommendation for her. The creators of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual would have been thrilled if a partisan behind enemy lines had been able to put this process in place at a Nazi organization. The Tale

…

industrial espionage—are tons of companies getting infiltrated by agents from rival firms and hostile governments who put in place the measures described in the Simple Sabotage Field Manual? No, but the fact that modern companies still sometimes operate as if they’d been sabotaged should give us pause. Here we are in the

…

; and lots of dissatisfaction and finger-pointing afterward. The way we were writing software in the industrial era would have made the authors of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual proud. For decades, large software development efforts had usually followed the waterfall approach, so called because its sequential steps reminded some of a waterfall splashing

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

by Karen Hao  · 19 May 2025  · 660pp  · 179,531 words

Systems Conference, December 8, 2020, neuripsconf.medium.com/announcing-the-neurips-2020-award-recipients-73e4d3101537. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT At one point, Welinder: Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Office of Strategic Services: 1944), cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Chapter 7: Science in Captivity Shortly after joining

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

by Tony Fadell  · 2 May 2022  · 411pp  · 119,022 words

: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Consumers, Geoffrey Moore Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, Merlin Sheldrake Simple Sabotage Field Manual, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, United States Office of Strategic Services, 1944 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184) Read the Face: Face Reading for Success