Stijn Dejongh

The Corporate Sabotage Field Guide is a black-ops satire disguised as a tactical handbook for middle management. Styled after wartime field manuals and insurgency playbooks, this book examines how ordinary corporate practices - peer reviews, KPIs, onboarding programs, alignment rituals - quietly become mechanisms of dysfunction. Each technique mirrors a familiar behavior, subtly weaponized to undermine trust, ownership, and progress while remaining perfectly respectable on paper.
Beneath the satire lies a serious diagnostic lens: a pattern-based exploration of how incentives, structures, and habits erode effectiveness without requiring bad intent or obvious villains. The goal is not to prescribe fixes, but to make hidden mechanisms visible. Ideal for the cynical practitioner, the burned-out individual contributor, the frustrated agile coach, or the manager who suspects the system is working exactly as designed - just not in anyone's favor. Included features: Dozens of sabotage patterns drawn from real organizational behavior Reinforcing pattern combinations that compound damage across teams A narrative case study illustrating how sabotage unfolds over time A tone that stays uncomfortably close to lived experience  Reader discretion advised.
Prolonged exposure may result in pattern recognition, uncomfortable clarity, or the realization that you've accidentally implemented some of these techniques yourself.