The OSS Sabotage Manual Became Corporate Best Practice
Summary
The article reissues the Simple Sabotage Field Manual and argues that bureaucratic practices have become the primary weapon undermining modern organizations. It traces origins to OSS in 1944, connects bureaucratic inefficiency to ongoing productivity challenges, and proposes AI-enabled interfaces as a potential way to render bureaucracy irrelevant. The piece also showcases Alephic’s AI-first approach and frames the conversation around how to redesign organizations for scale without the stagnation of excessive process.