Identify the management style that brought you success in the past. Those are the skills you're most comfortable with and can use to your best advantage. While most job seekers use index cards or notebooks to track their progress, the engineer literally drew out on those huge sheets a chart of the contacts he had made, referrals they yielded and job leads he uncovered. I had difficulty following the liens and circles, but he knew exactly where his search was going. The relationship between you and your boss is based on trust.
Nobody trusts someone who has lied and been discovered.
Job seekers don't have to tell all the truth, all the time, up front, to everyone. But what you say should never be refuted by later disclosure. Don't even lie about age. One MIS manager who did fabricate on purpose looked five years younger than his 53 years of age. Against all advice, he left his age off his resume and told the search firm he was 48.