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BRIEF - Two Free Chapters

Last updated: March 7, 2025
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Changing a culture requires commitment on all levels. Setting an organizational standard to value the quality and quantity of communication may require even more effort than that.

A declassified World War II OSS/CIA field manual shares hidden instructions that guided average citizens to subvert their own employers. Today, it reads like an operating manual for a typical organization.

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OSS Field Manual summary: https://www.businessinsider.com/oss-manual-sabotage-productivity-2015-11

OSS Field Manual: https://thebrieflab.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/oss_simple_sabotage_manual.pdf

 

Imagine the simplicity and power of someone promising to distill all the information you need and putting it on just one page. These executive summaries, whether they be a single PowerPoint slide or a cleanly formatted document with a series of bullet points, do everyone an enormous favor. In this episode, I share some thoughts when making them, so they become a go-to gift you’ll always give.

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