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Exposure


Coercing others by threatening to make public the professional / personal failings or secret and sensitive information of another.

Exposure is a manipulation strategy which is frequently learned at a young age and rehearsed and refined as we grow up. It has its roots in "telling tales" when as children, we discover that we can successfully coerce others by using this tactic. We also discover ...

 

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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