Leadership and self-deception

getting out of the box

180 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2002 by Berrett-Koehler.

ISBN:
978-1-57675-174-9
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OCLC Number:
48956305

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4 stars (6 reviews)

This book uses an entertaining story to identify self-deception as the underlying cause of leadership failure, and show how any leader can overcome self-deception to become a consistent catalyst of success. The authors show that the key to successful leadership lies deeper than a particular technique, behavior or skill, and that most people problems in organizations are the result of self-deception--a problem that can be identified, isolated, and treated in a disciplined, results-oriented way. The book demonstrates how people can stop undermining themselves and what happens when they do--freely and fully putting to work all the behavioral skills, systems, and techniques that will bring success to them and their organizations.--From publisher description.

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It is really difficult to say something about this book. The general idea with the boxes and that you tend to think about others as "objects", to easier blame them, is shockingly true - for me at least.



Still, I am not sure what to learn from it, besides just see if I can detect this behaviour and if so try to approach it differently.



One of the funny things about this is, it feels like some kind of "Fight Club"-esque secret, when you shall not tell anyone about the boxes.

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