Management Tip: How To Derail Your Organization

by Freddy Tran Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango + Guy Who Doesn’t Like One-Track Minds…

Think your company or nonprofit organization is on the right track? See if your executives regularly do any of the following…

Sounds like a proper exercise of caution right? Not exactly. In fact, it’s the opposite.

That list comes from the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944). Yes, it’s a step-by-step approach to derailing an organization. Yet, for many executives, those actions (or should I say, “inactions”?) are “best practices” and “professional approaches” and “the way things are always done around here.”

Time for new management procedures to get back on track.

Thanks to Martin Weigel for originally sharing this clip in his must-read blog “Canalside View.”