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EL017 – The CIA’s Guide to Making Engineers Miserable

How engineers self sabotage
How engineers self sabotage

Description

In this episode, I explore a WWII-era guide to “Simple Sabotage” published by the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services. It explains how disgruntled citizens of foreign nations can do little things to be disruptive and cause trouble.

As it so happens, the section on disrupting the way organizations work reads like a modern organization’s playbook. Without realizing it, the modern workplace looks almost designed to disrupt the normal operations of a business.

I focus on five of the most common sabotaging behaviours that I see in the workplace today and offer ideas on how to avoid them.

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Main segment Music Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba featuring Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, Alex Beroza. ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/33345. CC Attribution (3.0).

Intro/ Outro Music – Move Like This by spinningmerkaba featuring Texas Radio Fish, Alex Beroza, and Snowflake. ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/33397. CC Attribution (3.0)

Mailbag keychee – driptrips – 120bpm – samplepack by keychee. ccmixter.org/files/keychee/32541. CC Attribution (3.0).

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November 17, 2020

By Pat Sweet

Pat is the president of The Engineering & Leadership Project. He's a recognized expert in leadership, project management, systems engineering and productivity.

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