The OSS Sabotage Manual Became Corporate Best Practice

# Summary A 1944 OSS (Office of Strategic Services) manual designed to sabotage Nazi operations through bureaucratic dysfunction has become the blueprint for modern corporate management practices. The manual's tactics—such as overusing committees, haggling over wording, and prioritizing process over action—are now standard corporate procedures, inadvertently explaining why organizational productivity has stagnated since the 1970s despite technological advances. The saboteurs' wartime playbook for destroying enemy efficiency has become the operating manual for contemporary business, making modern corporations their greatest unintended success.