Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box

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. Self-deception And The Box -- Bud -- A Problem -- Self-deception -- The Problem Beneath Other Problems -- Beneath Effective Leadership -- The Deep Choice That Determines Influence -- People Or Objects -- Doubt -- How We Get In The Box -- Kate -- Self-betrayal -- Characteristics Of Self-betrayal -- Life In The Box -- Collusion -- Box Focus -- Box Problems -- How We Get Out Of The Box -- Lou -- Leadership In The Box -- Toward Being Out Of The Box -- Dead Ends -- The Way Out -- Leadership Out Of The Box -- Birth Of A Leader -- Another Chance. The Arbinger Institute. Originally Published: 2000.