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Guardian Angel


The tactic of implying friendly support, whilst at the same time suggesting that there are other more powerful people to answer to who will be much tougher, unless cooperation is quickly forthcoming.

Guardian Angel is the game of taking a position of implied empathy to "protect" another person from the unseen enemy. The enemy, usually a more powerful and challenging person is never in the room at the time. Moreover, this enemy may well take over the situation, unless ...

 

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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