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“Simple sabotage requires no destructive tools whatsoever and produces physical damage, if any, by highly indirect means. It is based on universal opportunities to make faulty decisions, to adopt a non-cooperative attitude, and to induce others to follow suit.”

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The OSS wrote this in 1944 to teach citizens in occupied Europe how to slow the German war effort from inside their jobs. Misplace the tools. Issue two tickets for the same seat. Bicker with coworkers. The manual says the trick is to enlarge the “margin for error” that already exists in normal work. Eighty years later, plenty of companies run the playbook with no enemy in sight.