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Personally I prefer the bureaucratic sabotage manual the OSS (the predecessor of the CIA) published during WWII, to advise Nazi-occupied workers on how to slow

Personally I prefer the bureaucratic sabotage manual the OSS (the predecessor of the CIA) published during WWII, to advise Nazi-occupied workers on how to slow business to a crawl. Which, funny enough, sometimes reads like a description of bad management practices in general! https://www.hsdl.org/c/abstract/?docid=750070 https://www.hsdl.org/c/abstract/?docid=750070

dredmorbius 3y ago
An HN favourite, with 35 submissions. Amongst the top discussions: - 7 years ago 64 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448090> - 3 years ago 89 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22322041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22322041> - 11 years ago 68 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363> - 6 years ago 32 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109771> - 1 year ago 55 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31676964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31676964> - 8 years ago 68 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493881> - 14 years ago 29 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833443 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833443>