QUICK TIPS: BE FRIENDLY WITH THE FRIENDS OF YOUR ENEMY!
Be friendly with the friends of your enemies. If there is someone at work who is consistently giving you a hard time, get close with their buddies. You will be surprised how likely it is that you can stumble across important information that can provide insights into their perceptions, motives, and actions. When talking with your enemy’s buddies:
-- Be very general—don’t come across as having tunnel-vision about your enemy.
-- Pretend to be only semi-interested in what they have to say—they will share more information, if they don’t feel they are selling out their friend to a vulture!
-- Be very casual when asking questions—again, you don’t want to appear focused on your enemy.
-- Use your enemy’s buddies to feed strategic information to your enemy. (e.g., things you want them to know without telling them yourself).
There will be future posts on this topic in the near future.
-- Be very general—don’t come across as having tunnel-vision about your enemy.
-- Pretend to be only semi-interested in what they have to say—they will share more information, if they don’t feel they are selling out their friend to a vulture!
-- Be very casual when asking questions—again, you don’t want to appear focused on your enemy.
-- Use your enemy’s buddies to feed strategic information to your enemy. (e.g., things you want them to know without telling them yourself).
There will be future posts on this topic in the near future.
posted by S. Mary Wills at 10:40 AM
1 Comments:
We finally agree on something.
It is also useful to feed information to the middle man/woman in these instances if there is something you want your enemy to know, or to silently insult them. You can poke and prod your enemy at a safe distance and have plausible deniability when the sh*t hits the fan.
Everything you said will be hearsay even though everyone knows it's true -- they just can't prove it.
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