(21) Snarl up administration in every possible way. (20) Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker. Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right. (19) Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. (18) Apply all regulations to the last letter. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do. (17) Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on. (15) Multiply paper work in plausible ways.
(14) Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done. Discriminate against efficient workers complain unjustly about their work. (13) To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers give them undeserved promotions. (12) When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading instructions. Approve other defective parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye. (11) Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw. (10) In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. Even though parts of an order may be ready beforehand, don’t deliver it until it is completely ready.
(9) Do everything possible to delay the delivery of orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. (6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. (5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions. (4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. (3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible-never less than five. (2) Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. (1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. In 1944, the CIA wrote a handbook on how to sabotage (enemy) organizations from the inside.