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Bystander


Knowing that someone is in a problematic situation, but standing on the sidelines, doing nothing, when intervention is appropriate and would be helpful to the business.

This trick is the self-interested act of deliberately allowing someone else to drift towards failure, embarrassment or worse at a time when intervention was still possible. It is a strange political act whereby the persecutor actually does nothing! This trick is usually ...

 

More details and guidance on how to deal with someone playing this Dirty Trick can be found in "21 Dirty Tricks at Work" by Colin Gautrey and Mike Phipps and published by Capstone Wiley.





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