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 ...

These are not very funny, they are very serious and cause lots of problems for people. If you want to find out how to protect yourself from this, and many others, you'll find this book provides extensive help, practical advice and lots of encouragement to influence with integrity and stop the damage!

21 Dirty Tricks at Work by Colin Gautrey and Mike Phipps and published by Capstone Wiley.