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 ...

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.