Another vote for following it up. These kind of people usually have one tool that works well in that environment because nobody anticipates their level of mendacity.
We should start identifying and naming these ploys in categories. The tactics are so diverse and situation specific that the list is too long to be more useful than a bunch of grievances, but their logic that identifies the opportunity to apply the tactic is going to be a very small set.
Is it just asserting counterfactuals and betting on the agreeableness of others and your power relationship to them to become implicated in it?
e.g. 1. "You're going to have this by thursday." Repeat until people stop challenging you because you are unreasonable or insane. 2. tell a third party, "X told me he would have this by thursday." 3. "If you don't have this by thursday Third Party will hold you accountable and I will not help you."
The play seems legitimate because you are driving an issue by getting bigger players to have a stake in the outcome, and making yourself the broker between that power and the delivery team.
As awful as it is, some of this is just the lot in life of being on the delivery side instead of the management side.
We should start identifying and naming these ploys in categories. The tactics are so diverse and situation specific that the list is too long to be more useful than a bunch of grievances, but their logic that identifies the opportunity to apply the tactic is going to be a very small set.
Is it just asserting counterfactuals and betting on the agreeableness of others and your power relationship to them to become implicated in it?
e.g. 1. "You're going to have this by thursday." Repeat until people stop challenging you because you are unreasonable or insane. 2. tell a third party, "X told me he would have this by thursday." 3. "If you don't have this by thursday Third Party will hold you accountable and I will not help you."
The play seems legitimate because you are driving an issue by getting bigger players to have a stake in the outcome, and making yourself the broker between that power and the delivery team.
As awful as it is, some of this is just the lot in life of being on the delivery side instead of the management side.