Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Corporate Sabotage Field Guide: Management-Level Techniques for Systemic Disruption and Psychological Erosion by Stijn Dejongh
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.
Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for Corporate Sabotage Field Guide: Management-Level Techniques for Systemic Disruption and Psychological Erosion by Stijn Dejongh!
Stijn Dejongh
About the Book
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.
About the Author
Stijn Dejongh is a systems thinker, architect, and quiet coach.
He writes about software development, team dynamics, and the messy space between architecture and human behavior. His work blends technical clarity with psychological insight, always rooted in the realities of complex systems.
Stijn prefers honest questions over polished slogans. He values mentorship over management, coherence over cleverness, and structure over spectacle. His writing lives at the intersection of calm, clarity, and context. You can find more of his work at patterns.sddevelopment.be, where he shares architectural practices, thought frameworks, and reflections on building better systems — and becoming a better part of them.Follow the author here!