Leadership and Self-Deception

by THE ARBINGER INSTITUTE

• ISBN13: 9781576750940
• ISBN10: 1576750949
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-12
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

The "disease" of self-deception (acting in ways contrary to what one knows is right) underlies all leadership problems in today's organizations, according to the premise of this work. However well intentioned they may be, leaders who deceive themselves always end up undermining their own performance.This straightforward book explains how leaders can discover their own self-deceptions and learn how to escape destructive patterns. The authors demonstrate that breaking out of these patterns leads to improved teamwork, commitment, trust, communication, motivation, and leadership.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I Self-Deception and the ``Box''
Bud	3	(4)
A Problem	7	(3)
Self-Deception	10	(7)
The Problem beneath Other Problems	17	(4)
Beneath Effective Leadership	21	(10)
The Deep Choice That Determines Influence	31	(10)
People or Objects	41	(8)
Doubt	49	(10)
Part II How We Get in the Box
Kate	59	(2)
Questions	61	(3)
Self-Betrayal	64	(8)
Characteristics of Self-Betrayal	72	(9)
Life in the Box	81	(10)
Collusion	91	(13)
Box Focus	104	(4)
Box Problems	108	(9)
Part III How We Get out of the Box
Lou	117	(4)
Leadership in the Box	121	(5)
Toward Being out of the Box	126	(3)
Dead Ends	129	(11)
The Way Out	140	(9)
Leadership out of the Box	149	(10)
Birth of a Leader	159	(4)
Another Chance	163	(6)
About The Arbinger Institute	169	(4)
Index	173