7 more ways that saboteurs attempt to destroy workplace productivity

Last week I wrote about the myriad of ways that productivity is destroyed at the workplace - both intentionally via an OSS manual from World War II as well as my own observations.

Reader Anne McGrath - who used to consult with non profit groups and now does organizational assessments, offered these additions to the list that I thought were well worth sharing. 

Assume no one has ever attempted to do what you’re trying to do, and start from scratch.Hide mistakes along the way and don’t bother collecting or sharing ideas for your best-practices or lessons-learned folder.  Spend no time identifying & recruiting effective partners or participants for your project, just invite anyone and everyone, regardless of what they’d bring to the table.Have murky or never discussed vision, goals, purpose and values. Assume everyone has the same identical end goal in mind.Don’t evaluate leadership capacity. Just use the leader you’ve always used for every project.Don’t engage the people you are trying to help.  For example, If in a school, leave students out of the equation re: all decisions that will directly impact their lives.  End meetings with no clear action plan for things to accomplish and bring back for next meeting. This helps create meetings that go on forever with nothing changing.