Seven Pillars of Sabotage
The organizing framework behind every technique in the manual — seven categories the Office uses to file its worst ideas.
From the office of strategic systemic decay
Corporate Sabotage Field Guide
Your organization is being sabotaged. By its own best practices.
A field manual for managers, agile coaches, and anyone who suspects the system works exactly as designed — just not in anyone's favor.
From $9.99 on Leanpub.
Exhibit A — contents
What's inside
The manual is organized as a field reference, not a pep talk.
50+ sabotage patterns
Field-catalogued by category, each one documented the way a real pattern book would document a good one.
"Shadow Fern" case study
A narrative operation at Red Ink Incorporated, followed from initiation to its entirely predictable outcome.
Tactical combination sets
Deployment sequences for when a single pattern isn't quite enough disruption.
Corporate lingo matrix
A terminology guide for speaking fluent obstruction in any standup.
Mechanisms of dysfunction
How ordinary corporate practices — peer reviews, KPIs, onboarding — quietly become the Office's most reliable instruments.
Specimen file — advance excerpts
Reading sample
Three specimens from the dossier, released for preliminary inspection.
Table of contents
How to read
Sample field entry
Exhibit B — field reports
What readers are saying
Funny and painful at the same time. Only a masterpiece book can achieve that.
One of the clearest explanations of how corporations quietly self-destruct.
I implemented just three patterns and my team hasn't delivered in nine months…10/10.
Personnel file
About the author
Closing directive — procurement memo
File it under required reading
Recognise the patterns before someone deploys the next one on you. Approved acquisition channels below — Leanpub is the recommended route.
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