A 1944 CIA sabotage manual reads like a modern corporate playbook. This essay explores how organisations unintentionally slow themselves down — and how leaders can release the friction that kills value.
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To flâner is to wander without agenda—to explore, notice, and let the world arrive without instruction. In this Studio essay, I reflect on wandering as a practice for creativity, attention, and making space for ideas.