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Creative Magpie


Exaggerating involvement in the ideas and good work of others or blatantly stealing them whilst hiding the originators worthy contributions.

The Creative Magpie comes in many varieties. The lesser-spotted magpie flies around collecting ideas, data and proposals from others. These are then fed up to a higher authority but presented as the magpies own work. The more vicious variety (the Vulture Magpie?) listens to ...

 

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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