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 Magpie's own work. The more vicious variety (the Vulture Magpie?) listens to ...

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.