Leading Innovation

8 Ways to Kill Innovation Inside Your Team or Organization

John Lowry Season 1 Episode 3

What does espionage and innovation have in common? The answer may surprise you. In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor of the CIA) published a field manual for sabotage. In this manual, they taught spies how to create chaos inside organizations, both physically and psychologically. Within this field manual we find 8 tactics for creating chaos, slowing progress, and killing innovation inside an organization.