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‘I am from headquarters and I am here to help you’ is a well-known lie. It is equated with ‘Your cheque is in the post’ and ‘The restructuring will benefit everybody’.
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© 2004 Adrian Furnham
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Furnham, A. (2004). Visitors from headquarters. In: Management and Myths. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403990037_55
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