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Management's badly phrased lie (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

leadership

'management's' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'badly phrased lie' is the wordplay.
'badly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'phrased'+'lie'='phrasedlie'
'phrasedlie' is an anagram of 'LEADERSHIP'.

(Other definitions for leadership that I've seen before include "Authority" , "guidance" , "Best party people" , "What editor gives" , "Management" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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