If you’ve ever worked as a team, then you know there are certain behaviors and attitudes that increase productivity, and just as many behaviors and attitudes that decrease it too. Good managers, good coaches, good leaders know how to correct unproductive behaviors and improve the performance of their whole team.

But what if your aim is to make your team less productive? Some of you might be muttering to yourself, “I’ve worked with folks like that before.” During World War II, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, created and distributed a secret pamphlet titled “The Simple Sabotage Field Manual” to citizens living in Germany, Italy and Japan. They hoped to reach those citizens who were sympathetic to the cause of defeating the Nazis and ending the war. The manua…