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For educational purposes only.

(a) Organizations and Conferences (1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

(2) Make "speeches," Talk as frequently as possible and at great length., Illustrate your. "points.. by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate "patriotic"-comments

(3) When possible, refer all matters to 'committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible - never less than five. (4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. (5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision (7) Advocate "caution." Be unreasonable" & urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision - raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or 'whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.

(b) Managers and Supervisors (1) Demand written orders. (2) Misunderstand" orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.

(4) Don't order new working' materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that .the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown.

(5) Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don't get them argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean inferior work.

(6) In making work assignments, always , sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.