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The Fall Guy / The Patsy


Assigning projects or tasks that are destined to fail to an expendable manager so that they can be blamed for the failure, and/or to reassign favoured employees away from reputation threatening failure.

Projects in organisations fail all the time; it's a fact. Sometimes they fail due to incompetence, lack of resources, internal politicking, competitor activity or other mitigating circumstances. But how the ...

 

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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