How would trained saboteurs, successfully planted on your team by ruthless competitors, proceed to undermine your productivity? If they followed a previously classified World War II field guide used by the predecessor of today’s CIA, they would follow eight rules to sap your momentum. Robert Galford; an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, co-author of Simple Sabotage, facilitator of an open-enrollment course from the Office of Executive Programs; says many people with good intentions do the same things.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- How would trained saboteurs, successfully planted on your team by ruthless competitors, proceed to undermine your productivity? If they followed a previously classified World War II field guide used by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of today's CIA, they would follow eight rules to sap your momentum.