Jam Tomorrow

Making vague promises of future rewards to encourage people to take on unpleasant assignments, put in more effort or take greater risks.

This game is all about encouraging someone to make sacrifices for implied (and frequently unnamed or unspecified) benefits to come later. This alleged "promise" is presented in the secret knowledge that the real agenda is to manipulate them into ...

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.